In January of this year, the BC government joined Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to become the fourth province to announce that it is considering creating tradable water rights as a way of curbing use and improving the efficiency of allocation. The announcement came as a vague reference to “water markets” in the latest draft of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'privatization'
Tradable Water Rights – Coming to a province near you
March 5th, 2011 · Robin Roff · Comments Off · Environment, resources & sustainability, Privatization, P3s & public services
Tags: privatization·water
Teeny Budget factoid
September 3rd, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · 2 Comments · Economy, Privatization, P3s & public services, Provincial budget & finance
It appears when it comes to the heavy lifting of cutting spending in BC, not all public agencies are equal. The February Budget documents stated that: To ensure that health services are protected in the current economic environment, the Ministry of Health Services and health authorities will be required to achieve efficiencies and administrative savings [...]
The Lawsuit
March 4th, 2009 · Colleen Fuller · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Health care
The Lawsuit A couple of weeks ago I wrote that Brian Day and his followers had launched a lawsuit against the province, alleging that, “in contravention of the value of individual choice,” the Medicare Protection Act restricts or prohibits patients from “accessing the private health care of their choice”. Day & Co. brazenly admit in [...]
Forensic auditors say P3s expensive, biased and secret
January 29th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Privatization, P3s & public services
So who are you going to believe about public private partnerships (P3s)? One side of the debate says they’re swell. They save money for taxpayers, they come in on budget and they transfer risk from governments to companies. But other people say details are kept secret from the public and that in fact they cost [...]
Tags: Abbotsford Hospital·Canada Line·hospital·P3·Port Mann·privatization·Sea-to-Sky Highway·Vancouver General Hospital
P3s: the cubic zirconium of public projects
January 25th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Privatization, P3s & public services
Jonathan Fowlie and Lori Gilbert did a first rate job of looking at one facet of public private partnerships (P3′s) in the January 23 Vancouver Sun. P3′s are one part of the BC government’s enthusiasm for privatization. Private companies pay for the development of public infrastructure or services and then run the projects for decades [...]
Tags: P3·privatization
