P3s DO NOT Make
Financial Sense
P3s are more expensive because of higher private-sector borrowing costs and the need to generate profits at every stage, whether in financing, delivery or operations.
Creative accounting, through the manipulation of “discount rates” and the exaggeration of public sector risks, gives officials and the public a distorted and inaccurate picture of the financial costs of P3s.
Private sector cost overruns can reach into the millions, while taxpayers remain on the hook.
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DRV2WRK
On the road in Ontario for good jobs, strong public services, and healthy communities.
People and communities are hurting because of job loss and service cuts in Ontario. There’s a caravan of folks who want to tell and hear the stories behind the statistics. We’re travelling through more than 50 towns and cities in June.
P3s - Public and Private Partnerships
P3s are bad public policy and an unwise use of tax dollars. Costs increase, accountability diminishes and opportunism can run rampant. Despite the evidence that public-private partnerships (P3s) are more expensive and risky, less effective and unaccountable, the federal government is aggressively pursuing privatization. Corporations benefit from public investments in infrastructure all while the government divests public assets and relinquishes public stewardship.
Unbottle It!
The objectives of the campaign include generating public support for bottled water bans, supporting and empowering community activists seeking bottled water bans and restoring public faith in public water.
Child Care
Families in all sectors across Ontario need child care. With the economic downturn, it is going to take many voices to convince the Ontario government that investment in child care and early childhood education is critical in the next provincial budget.
Climate Change
Climate change is happening right now.
Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxides, last for hundreds of years in the atmosphere. As a result, the impacts of our actions on the climate are delayed, cumulative and will be felt for generations to come.
Get Real! It's The Economy...
Canadians have been hit hard by the economic crisis.
We are losing thousands of jobs and our pensions are taking a beating.
Government must find solutions that help everybody, not just the banks and corporations that got us into this mess. Working people and their unions are going to be part of the solution as Canadians rebuild their lives and communities.
Wal-Mart
Andrea Horwath, MPP for Hamilton Centre, made the following Statement in the Ontario Legislature on October 20, 2008 regarding the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and its valiant effort to help Wal-Mart Canada workers.