Saskatchewan: The next frontier for P3s

Eighteen months ago, John McBride, the CEO of Public Private Partnerships Canada, was at a cocktail party during a P3 conference in the United States. "All people wanted to talk about," he said, "was what was happening in Saskatchewan." McBride was one of dozens of speakers at the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce's second P3 Summit on June 9 in Regina. The conference brought together proponents of P3s (public private partnerships), construction companies like PCL and Graham, financial advisers, lawyers and delegates from provincial, municipal and school board sectors. Its not surprising that McBride gave his anecdote from the United States.