1992 — First P3 conference held
1993 — Creation of The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships. Founding board members include John Simke (President), Blair Cowper-Smith, Christa C. Wessel, W. M. Carson, Terry Stephen, Donald G. Gibson, Michael Atkinson, Russell MacDonald, James W. MacLaren, Steven Davis, Brian L. Crowley, Tom Gosnell, Ronald S. Lloyd and Donald S. Macdonald
1997 — First P3s in Canada open. The Confederation Bridge, linking Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, narrowly beats out Nova Scotia's Cobequid Pass to be the first in operation
1998 — First winners announced in the inaugural National Awards for Public-Private Partnerships (P3s)
2001 — Bruce Power makes history, becoming Canada’s first private nuclear operator and the largest — and one of the most successful — public-private partnership (P3) projects in the country
2002 — The British Columbia government creates Partnerships BC, a government agency to support the public sector by providing expertise in the procurement of complex capital projects and in using the private sector. The province was the first in Canada to create such a standalone agency, setting a trend that saw the creation of similar agencies across Canada. From 2002 to 2020, it led 61 completed project procurements throughout Canada with a value of $21.4 billion
2004 — Ground-breaking held for the Gordon & Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre, a partnership between Vancouver Coastal Health and Access Health Vancouver, and the first health-care P3 in Canada
2005 — Creation of Infrastructure Ontario
2008 — Great Recession
2008 — Creation of PPP Canada
2009 — Opening of Canada Line for Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games – first major transit P3 in Canada
2012 — SaskBuilds created
2013 — A City of Regina referendum sees citizens vote 57.1 per cent in favour of using the P3 model to fund its wastewater plant upgrade
2014 — Ontario Auditor General report on Alternative Financing and Procurement is released. In a statement, CCPPP notes it is concerned the report paints an inaccurate representation of the P3 model
2015 — Opening of the award-winning P3 Humber River Hospital in northwest Toronto, billed as one of Canada’s largest acute care hospitals and North America’s first all-digital hospital
2017 — First handback of P3 project in Canada – N.S. schools bundle
2017 — The newly upgraded Iqaluit International Airport opens. The major gateway to Nunavut is the first and only fully operational P3 airport project to achieve financial close and subsequent construction completion in all of North America
2017 — Creation of Canada Infrastructure Bank
2018 — Federal government dissolves PPP Canada after it "fulfilled its mandate and Canada has developed a strong P3 market." PPP Canada invested more than $1.3 billion in 25 large or complex infrastructure projects during its eight years of operation.
2018 — Collapse of Carillion, the U.K.’s second largest construction company. This is considered a bellwether of what can happen when governments embrace “an aggressive approach to risk transfer,” as a British government committee noted. In Canada, P3 projects involving Carillion led to other private sector partners in the consortiums involved quickly taking on additional responsibilities
2019 — Exiting of several players from North American P3 market
2019 — Ontario launches its Unsolicited Infrastructure Proposals Framework
2020 — COVID-19 pandemic
2020 — Partnerships BC rebrands as Infrastructure BC
2021 — Tłı̨ chǫ All-Season Road opens in the Northwest Territories. It is among the first P3s in North America with an Indigenous government that has a cash-funded equity stake, showcasing how Indigenous communities are becoming increasingly involved in infrastructure projects
2022 — New infrastructure procurement models coming on stream.
2022 — CCPPP celebrates 30th anniversary of its Annual Conference, returning to an in-person format after two years presenting virtually during the pandemic
2022 — Ottawa LRT inquiry
