Notes
Introduction
1. Quoted in David Biello, âHow Much Will Tar Sands Oil Add to Global Warming?â Scientific American, January 23, 2013.
2. James Hansen, âGame Over for the Climate,â New York Times, May 9, 2012.
3. H.V. Nelles, The Politics of Development: Forests, Mines and Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario 1849â1941 (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1974), pp. 1â2.
4. Ibid., p. 39.
5. Ibid., pp. 8, 11, 15.
6. Ibid., p. 31.
7. Herschel Hardin, A Nation Unaware: The Canadian Economic Culture (North Vancouver: J.J. Douglas Ltd., 1974), pp. 54, 92.
8. Ibid., p. 61.
9. Hugh Grant, David Wolfe (eds.), Staples and Beyond: Selected Writings of Mel Watkins (Montreal: McGill-Queenâs University Press, 2006), p. 110.
10. Quoted in Hardin, A Nation Unaware, p. 94.
11. Ibid., p. 140.
12. Sandford F. Borins, âWorld War II Crown Corporations: Their Functions and Their Fate,â in J. Robert Prichard (ed.), Crown Corporations in Canada: The Calculus of Instrument Choice (Toronto: Butterworths, 1983), pp. 447â75.
13. Quoted in ibid., p. 466.
14. Quoted in ibid., p. 471.
15. Jeff Rubin, Evaluating the Need for Pipelines: A False Narrative for the Canadian Economy (Waterloo, ON: Centre for International Governance Innovation, Policy Brief No. 115, September 2017), p. 2.
16. Quoted in Geoff Dembicki, âHereâs How Canadaâs Oil Sands Could Collapse by 2030,â Vice, August 14, 2017.
17. Quoted in Audrea Lim, âHow a Scandal-Plagued Company Gave Birth to Kinder Morgan,â National Observer, November 14, 2016.
18. Rubin, Evaluating the Need for Pipelines, p. 5.
Chapter One: Justin Trudeau Meets the Smartest Guy on Wall Street
1. Sally Blount, âHow Leaders Use Power to Drive Change,â Forbes, November 16, 2017.
2. J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Infrastructure Investing: Key Benefits and Risks, 4Q2015 (New York: JPMorgan Chase, 2015), p. 7.
3. Suzanna Andrews, âLarry Finkâs $12 Trillion Shadow,â Vanity Fair, April 2010.
4. Bill Curry, âPrivate-Sector Role in Canada Infrastructure Bank Raises Conflict-of-Interest Questions,â Globe and Mail, May 5, 2017.
5. Sean Craig, âAfter He Leaves the CCIB, Where Will Mark Wiseman Fit in at BlackRock?â Financial Post, May 19, 2016.
6. Advisory Council on Economic Growth, Unleashing Productivity through Infrastructure (Ottawa: Department of Finance, 2016), p. 10
7. Ibid., p. 4.
8. This question was originally posed by economists Brian MacLean and Mark Setterfield.
9. McKinsey Global Institute, Bridging Global Infrastructure Gaps (New York: McKinsey & Company, 2016).
10. Bill Curry, âMPs Grill Morneauâs Growth Adviser on Ambitious Infrastructure Plans,â Globe and Mail, October 27, 2016.
11. Advisory Council on Economic Growth, Unleashing Productivity, p. 5.
12. Ibid., p. 5.
13. Ibid., p. 13.
14. Ibid., p. 15.
15. Ibid., p. 12.
16. Ibid., pp. 12â13.
17. Author interview with Kevin Page, Randall Bartlett, Azfar Ali Khan, Ottawa, January 22, 2018. Bartlett is now economic research director at OMERS Capital Markets.
18. Toby Sanger, Creating a Canadian Infrastructure Bank in the Public Interest (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Alternative Federal Budget Technical Paper, March 2017), p. 3. Also, author interview with Toby Sanger, Karin Jordan, Ottawa, January 22, 2018. Sanger is now executive director of Canadians for Tax Fairness.
19. Jordan Press, Andy Blatchford, âDocuments Suggest Taxpayers Poised for Bigger Risk in Infrastructure Bank,â Globe and Mail, May 31, 2017.
20. Advisory Council on Economic Growth, Unleashing Productivity, p. 15.
21. Quoted in Tara Deschamps, âSidewalk Toronto Faces Growing Opposition, Calls to Cancel Project,â Financial Post, February 18, 2019.
22. BlackRock, Infrastructure Rising: An Asset Class Takes Shape, April 2015, pp. 2â4.
23. Heather Whiteside, âAusterity Infrastructure: Financializing, Offshoring, and Tax Sheltering Public-Private Partnership Funds,â paper prepared for Austerity and Its Alternatives, SSHRC Partnership Development Grant Workshop, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, December 14â15, 2016. See also Heather Whiteside, Public-Private Partnerships (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2016).
24. Author interview with Heather Whiteside, University of Waterloo, February 2, 2018.
25. Paul Wells, âJustin Trudeauâs Trillion-Dollar Question,â Toronto Star, October 16, 2016.
26. Barrie McKenna, âMany Things Will Have to Click for Canada Infrastructure Bank to Work,â Globe and Mail, June 9, 2017.
Chapter Two: The Worst Deal of the Century
1. Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Rightâs Stealth Plan for America (New York: Penguin Random House, 2017).
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