Former Mayor Ivan Court hopes the Council of Canadians isn’t right when it suggests the city is being strongarmed by the federal govoernment to accept a public-private partnership or P-3 model to pay for a water treatment plant on the east side.
Court says that would be morally wrong because when he was Mayor, the city was told funding would still be available if it was determined a project could be done cheaper without a public-private partnership.
Court says the police station at Peel Plaza was constructed at half the cost of what it would have been under the P-3 model and the city should talk to officials in Halifax about their experience with a P-3 to build a water treatment plant which he claims turned into a fiasco.
