Secret meeting, secret opportunities: the high stakes private sector funding of Canada’s infrastructure

Seven senior federal officials, including the deputy ministers at Finance, Global Affairs, and Infrastructure, and the deputy PCO clerk, met with a 'stakeholder' corporation for a three-hour dinner discussion on how to get investment funding so the then-proposed new Canada Infrastructure Bank could work. But the government won't say who the private stakeholder was.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Ken Rubin argues that there is much at stake with the Canada Infrastructure Bank and much potential for international financial influence over the Canadian economy and politicians.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY KEN RUBIN

May 8, 2017

OTTAWA—Secret meetings, secret opportunities: power and influence behind closed doors in Ottawa is always present. Uncovering such nefarious activity is never easy, but through an access-to-information application, one stark example of this came to light where several senior government officials ...

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