The two main issues are the creation of the This is different than traditional infrastructure arm’s length corporation and the involvement of procurement where the city hires the private the private sector in the provision of water and sector to build and sometimes design projects, waste services. [...] control over the delivery of services, while the The motion passed by City Council last second is whether for-profit companies should Wednesday gives the city permission to “begin operate some water and wastewater services that the procurement of a Strategic Partner that could have previously been publicly operated by the city. [...] Many of intention to privatize Winnipeg’s water and sewage these P3 cost cutting measures have resulted in services, the proposal clearly opens the doors to serious problems for governments across Canada, operating the city’s water and waste operations who found themselves with declining quality and as a P3, and thereby to the privatization of water poor delivery of essential services. [...] After a series of competition are not lost when the government renegotiations and re-contracting, costing the maintains ownership, as private sector companies taxpayer millions, the city eventually took back still compete for the contract to design and build the service. [...] Given the past performance of P3s, it is efficiencies compared to the public sector, this likely that the public sector would come out on top gain is unlikely to make up for the additional as the most efficient and cost effective option for costs.
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