Canada needs a government-backed social finance fund: Senators Eggleton, Omidvar

Social finance combines private and public investment for projects that serve a social purpose, such as affordable housing or infrastructure projects in poorer communities.

With the government's backing, a social finance fund could pay for projects that can really make a difference in communities, write Senators Art Eggleton and Ratna Omidvar. The Hill Times photograph by Kristen Shane

Opinion

BY Senator Art Eggleton and Senator Ratna Omidvar

August 27, 2018

The time is right for social finance to flourish in Canada. This is because an evolving world needs evolving solutions. In Canada, the range of issues that the government must respond to and invest in has heightened, from safe drinking water on Indigenous reserves to the development of products tha...

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