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Infrastructure Canada leads federal efforts to ensure that Canadians benefit from world-class, modern public infrastructure.

The GI Hub welcomes the Canadian Government’s strong commitment to sustainable development, and growing the world’s economy through effective infrastructure planning and investment. We sincerely thank Prime Minister Trudeau for Canada’s generous contribution to the GI Hub, and look forward to working together to improve infrastructure procurement and delivery around the world.

National PPP Unit

Communications Regulator

Bilateral Aid

Competition Regulator

National PPP Unit

Subnational PPP Unit

On the 5th, 6th and 7th of November 2018, Mark Moseley, the GI Hub Acting CEO, spoke at two sessions of Canada’s National Conference on Public-Private Partnerships in Toronto, a annual event hosted by the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP). This year, there were over 1200 delegates in attendance, from over 30 countries.

Communications Regulator

National PPP Unit

Communications Regulator

This paper compares and contrasts the experience of institutional investors in the two countries looking at factors such as infrastructure policies, the pension system, investment strategies and governance of pension funds.

The United Nations Tops the A.T.Kearney FDI Confidence Index for the 6th year in a row. This enduring attractiveness is likely in large part because the US is the largest market in the world.

Welcome to the first edition in a series of updates that the GI Hub will provide in advance of each G20 Infrastructure Working Group (IWG) meeting. As committed to in the GI Hub’s Strategic Plan 2019-22, and in response to requests made by members of the IWG, these updates will provide both a description of activities undertaken since the last IWG meeting and a preview of upcoming initiatives. For each of the GI Hub products discussed in the update, we will identify the relationship between the product and the workstreams in the IWG Terms of Reference. We hope that you will find these updates informative and, of course, we welcome any questions or feedback.

This report from PwC, with research by Oxford Economics, analyses and projects capital project and infrastructure spending across the globe.

This year, the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) again attended the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF, held in Bali, Indonesia, alongside the meetings of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors. Trade tensions dominated many of the multilateral meetings, with all sides calling for a workable solution to be found. The leaders and representatives of smaller nations among the G20 and the IMF and World Bank community were pointed in their remarks that escalation of tensions between major economic powers was already having exponentially greater impacts on smaller economies.