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Old Posted Jan 27, 2011, 3:37 PM
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The feds should really change the name of this program to something other than the P3 Canada Fund if they will be supporting stadium and arena projects in this way. Funding a project that has private contributions doesn't automatically make the project a P3...
You do know what P3 stands for right?
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Old Posted Jan 27, 2011, 5:12 PM
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Sounds like the federal NDP are in support as well, as long as there is a good business plan and that there are no one offs. So I guess that makes zero opposition to funding from the P3 program.
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Old Posted Jan 27, 2011, 5:51 PM
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You do know what P3 stands for right?
Yes Chaps, I've done graduate research on P3 infrastructure projects, so yes, I do know what P3 stands for. However, the "partnership" in P3 rarely ever means, "feds will contribute to a project because the private sector is".

Rather, in P3s, the government contracts a private firm to Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) a public infrastructure project, who will have a contract to operate that infrastructure for the length of the concession. It's the private sector who puts up most of the money up front, plans most of the project, and bears a significant share of the fianncial risk. Other times, (in a BOT contract), the private sector builds, operates (for the length of the concession), and then turns over the infrastructure back to the government.

In these stadium cases, the projects are government led, primarily government financed, and the government will definitely be taking on all the financial risk (ie: don't expect the private sector to cover cost overruns, or fund potential operating losses). Just because a few private sector firms are rumoured to be donating funds (whether through sponsorships, or through the goodness of their hearts) does NOT make these deals P3 in the P3 sense. Not even close...
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Yes Chaps, I've done graduate research on P3 infrastructure projects, so yes, I do know what P3 stands for. However, the "partnership" in P3 rarely ever means, "feds will contribute to a project because the private sector is".

Rather, in P3s, the government contracts a private firm to Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) a public infrastructure project, who will have a contract to operate that infrastructure for the length of the concession. It's the private sector who puts up most of the money up front, plans most of the project, and bears a significant share of the fianncial risk. Other times, (in a BOT contract), the private sector builds, operates (for the length of the concession), and then turns over the infrastructure back to the government.

In these stadium cases, the projects are government led, primarily government financed, and the government will definitely be taking on all the financial risk (ie: don't expect the private sector to cover cost overruns, or fund potential operating losses). Just because a few private sector firms are rumoured to be donating funds (whether through sponsorships, or through the goodness of their hearts) does NOT make these deals P3 in the P3 sense. Not even close...
Yes that may be the conventional definition of a P3 but the P3 Canada Fund will allow projects where the private sector merely bears construction risk and does not necessarily need to own or operate the facility after it is completed.
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Old Posted Jan 27, 2011, 6:30 PM
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Yes that may be the conventional definition of a P3 but the P3 Canada Fund will allow projects where the private sector merely bears construction risk and does not necessarily need to own or operate the facility after it is completed.
^And that is exactly my point. The private sector will not bear any construction risk in this project. Let's say various private donors are ponying up 70 Million, as has been speculated many times. Some of that is obviously in sponsorship money, and some of it is obviously long term commitment (ie: hotel association over 15 years). The private sector is not on the hook for cost overruns. The private sector is not on the hook for operating losses.

As I've said before, I have no problem with the feds contributing reasonable, and fairly to sports projects accross the country. However, if this is a priority for the feds, call a spade a spade - this is nothing close to what the feds intended when creating the P3 fund, and doesn't fit the P3 definition.
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^And that is exactly my point. The private sector will not bear any construction risk in this project. Let's say various private donors are ponying up 70 Million, as has been speculated many times. Some of that is obviously in sponsorship money, and some of it is obviously long term commitment (ie: hotel association over 15 years). The private sector is not on the hook for cost overruns. The private sector is not on the hook for operating losses.

As I've said before, I have no problem with the feds contributing reasonable, and fairly to sports projects accross the country. However, if this is a priority for the feds, call a spade a spade - this is nothing close to what the feds intended when creating the P3 fund, and doesn't fit the P3 definition.
get over it
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The P3 Canada Fund is also designed to get the money back after a certain term. It isn't a grant - more like a low interest loan.
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^And that is exactly my point. The private sector will not bear any construction risk in this project. Let's say various private donors are ponying up 70 Million, as has been speculated many times. Some of that is obviously in sponsorship money, and some of it is obviously long term commitment (ie: hotel association over 15 years). The private sector is not on the hook for cost overruns. The private sector is not on the hook for operating losses.

As I've said before, I have no problem with the feds contributing reasonable, and fairly to sports projects accross the country. However, if this is a priority for the feds, call a spade a spade - this is nothing close to what the feds intended when creating the P3 fund, and doesn't fit the P3 definition.

You are not correct. All the major construction companies have P3 divisions that do exactly that. Obviously they get compensated for taking the construction risk, but they are in a much better position to manage the risk given that construction is their business.
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The P3 Canada Fund is also designed to get the money back after a certain term. It isn't a grant - more like a low interest loan.
Where did you get that notion. Have you even read the Fund's materials?
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Old Posted Jan 27, 2011, 7:39 PM
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You are not correct. All the major construction companies have P3 divisions that do exactly that. Obviously they get compensated for taking the construction risk, but they are in a much better position to manage the risk given that construction is their business.
Stormer, we're not talking about the construction companies here as the private sector - Whatever company builds this stadium won't be financing, operating, or owning this stadium, and therefore can't be considered as a private partner in the P3 sense. For example, if a municipal government (using money they borrowed, or took out of their capital budget) pays PCL to build a bridge, that doesn't make it a P3. However, if PCL used their own capital to build the bridge, and were granted a concession to collect tolls from the bridge for 30 years (or, if no tolls, paid back over 30 years by the municipality), that would be a P3. PCL would have most of the risk, rather than the municipality.

In regards to "P3" for this stadium, we're talking about private firms who will by putting up $70 M for the project (and not the construction firms). Let's say, in this hypothetical example, Mosaic put up $20 M. Do you think that if there are cost overruns, Mosaic is going to have to cover them over and above the $20 M contribution? Or, lets say the hotel association is paying $1 M a year - if there is an operating deficit, are they going to have to pay $2 M or $3 M instead? Of course not - and that is why the private sector is not taking on any risk - the overruns and defecits I mentioned will be covered by the province or city...
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Old Posted Jan 27, 2011, 7:44 PM
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Where did you get that notion. Have you even read the Fund's materials?
From the political staffer that set up the fund under Flaherty. It is a crown corporation, sort of like Export Development Canada. It isn't designed to pay out its budgeted allotments then fold up shop - it is a perpetual funding machine, helping to encourage P3 projects by taking some of the risk from the private sector while allowing the private sector to absorb most of the benefits.
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Old Posted Jan 27, 2011, 8:13 PM
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Stormer, we're not talking about the construction companies here as the private sector - Whatever company builds this stadium won't be financing, operating, or owning this stadium, and therefore can't be considered as a private partner in the P3 sense. For example, if a municipal government (using money they borrowed, or took out of their capital budget) pays PCL to build a bridge, that doesn't make it a P3. However, if PCL used their own capital to build the bridge, and were granted a concession to collect tolls from the bridge for 30 years (or, if no tolls, paid back over 30 years by the municipality), that would be a P3. PCL would have most of the risk, rather than the municipality.

In regards to "P3" for this stadium, we're talking about private firms who will by putting up $70 M for the project (and not the construction firms). Let's say, in this hypothetical example, Mosaic put up $20 M. Do you think that if there are cost overruns, Mosaic is going to have to cover them over and above the $20 M contribution? Or, lets say the hotel association is paying $1 M a year - if there is an operating deficit, are they going to have to pay $2 M or $3 M instead? Of course not - and that is why the private sector is not taking on any risk - the overruns and defecits I mentioned will be covered by the province or city...

You are thinking about a typical P3 like many of the recent high profile projects. The P3 Canada Fund however will also support projects that do not generate income, with non-repayable contributions from the Fund of up to 25% of the cost. The Fund only requires the private sector to construct and finance the project. This is referred to as the Design Build Finance Transfer (DBFT) model. It is not necessary that they own or operate it over time. Big contractors' P3 divisions are set up to arrange this construction financing.
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Old Posted Jan 27, 2011, 8:15 PM
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From the political staffer that set up the fund under Flaherty. It is a crown corporation, sort of like Export Development Canada. It isn't designed to pay out its budgeted allotments then fold up shop - it is a perpetual funding machine, helping to encourage P3 projects by taking some of the risk from the private sector while allowing the private sector to absorb most of the benefits.
Sure but they also will make non-repayable contributions, AKA grants.
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Can we just stop debating whether or not this should be built or where the funding should or shouldn't come from? Lets keep the discussion to the construction and design details, and keep the politics out.
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Old Posted Jan 27, 2011, 9:21 PM
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There is no construction and design details without money.
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Old Posted Jan 27, 2011, 9:30 PM
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cbc website - public comments

The stadium proposal is really getting trashed in the comments section on the cbc headline website (link attached). I would say 2 or 3 to 1 against.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewa...ng-110125.html
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Old Posted Jan 27, 2011, 9:38 PM
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Can we just stop debating whether or not this should be built or where the funding should or shouldn't come from? Lets keep the discussion to the construction and design details, and keep the politics out.
If you want to keep the discussion about construction and design details, then this thread would have had no posts since the feasibility study came out almost a year ago. All there is right now is politics and funding issues, and if you don't find those interesting and worthy of debate, then why even post in this thread?
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The stadium proposal is really getting trashed in the comments section on the cbc headline website (link attached). I would say 2 or 3 to 1 against.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewa...ng-110125.html
LOL....any thing that requires public money gets thrashed on the CBC. Ninety-nine percent of the whiners just type against anything any given article is about...just to be against it. Much like some on this board.
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Old Posted Jan 27, 2011, 9:58 PM
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LOL....any thing that requires public money gets thrashed on the CBC. Ninety-nine percent of the whiners just type against anything any given article is about...just to be against it. Much like some on this board.
In general, comment sections on newspaper sites don't typically consist of the smartest or rational people. No one should pay attention to them.
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The stadium proposal is really getting trashed in the comments section on the cbc headline website (link attached). I would say 2 or 3 to 1 against.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewa...ng-110125.html
I can't post on the CBC website without getting accosted by rabid social activist types. Resistance is futile.
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