Consulting Engineers of Ontarion - page 7

One of the biggest chal-
lenges currently facing Ontar-
ians is the province’s massive
+$100-billion infrastructure
deficit. “A long-term plan is
what is needed,” says Stein-
berg. “The challenge will al-
ways be to find the money
to make this investment, but
this deficit is growing every
day and I can’t see where we
have any choice. It would cer-
tainly help if the federal gov-
ernment would acknowledge
their responsibility toward
a long-term commitment to
investing in transit funding.
Canada is the only G7 country
not to have a national transit
strategy.”
Another challenge is how
the construction industry is
changing how it does busi-
ness, namely the growing
trend toward the use of Pub-
lic Private Partnership (P3) for
developing large projects. “As
engineers, our biggest con-
cern is staying close to the cli-
ent and the projects are fund-
ed in a way that we design
good innovation and manage-
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