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Our panel responds to the federal government’s infrastructure agenda by probing how Canada’s private sector can influence and deliver on a pipeline of nation-building mega projects.

The conversation, moderated by Jessica Foster, Partner, Gowling WLG, includes Clint Davis, CEO, Cedar Leaf Capital; Jay Khosla, Executive Director, Economic and Energy Policy, Public Policy Forum; and Tim Murphy, Executive Vice President & Chief Strategic Affairs Officer, Aecon.

Private investors are crucial for infrastructure plans to succeed. But what regulatory and policy barriers are standing in the way? How much money can Canada attract in a competitive global market? What asset classes and infrastructure models are of greatest interest? Are private infrastructure projects more attractive than public? What role should the Maple 8 play? Most importantly, our panel discussed how to get government and public buy-in to private investment in our infrastructure of the future.

The conversation, moderated by Theo Argitis, Senior Vice President, Policy, Business Council of Canada, and former journalist with Bloomberg News, includes: Philippe Adam, President & CEO, Pomerleau; Andrew Alley, Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure, North America & Australasia, CPP Investments; and Duncan Ball, CEO, BBGI Global Infrastructure.

For the past 20 years, Infrastructure Ontario has been central to Ontario’s public infrastructure program. Since its creation, the provincial Crown agency has grown into one of the most influential government procuring agencies in Canada, with a globally watched project pipeline and project documents that have set standards across the country, contributing to what has become known as the “made-in-Canada” P3 model.

In a fireside chat with Angela Clayton, IO’s fifth President & CEO, we discuss how the agency (and the P3 model) have evolved, from the delivery of Hôpital Montfort — the agency’s first P3 project in 2006 — to the rise of megaprojects, the embracing of new models, adapting new technology and working with stakeholders that demand ever more of our most critical assets.