Reducing Transaction Costs on Infrastructure Corridor Projects in Canada

Infrastructure corridors are among the most complicated undertakings in Canada, requiring transactions related to everything from property rights to maintenance to finance. One way to reduce these transaction costs is by making Indigenous stakeholders partners, not just participants in negotiations. In this presentation, we will examine the barriers and costs for greater Indigenous participation in and ownership of infrastructure corridor projects.

Join us for this discussion of how transaction costs in large infrastructure projects can be reduced, ensuring fiscal and economic benefits generated from them are available to Indigenous communities as well as other Canadians and governments.

Presenters:

André Le Dressay, Director, Fiscal Realities Economists; Director, Tulo Centre of Indigenous Economics; Professor, Thompson Rivers University
Jason Calla, Principal, Temixw Planning Ltd.
Jason Reeves, Economist, Fiscal Realities Economists

Moderator: Marcia Nelson, Board Member, Alberta Blue Cross, and Executive Fellow, The School of Public Policy and Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

Wednesday, March 16, 2022
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. MST

There is no cost to register. Webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Please share this with those who might be interested.

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The Canadian Northern Corridor Research Program Webinar Series

The Canadian Northern Corridor is an idea that responds to Canada’s need to increase interregional and international trade, provide services to northern communities, and establish a broadly accepted approach to large-scale infrastructure development.

It would be a network of multi-modal rights-of-way across middle and northern Canada, with an accompanying policy, regulatory and governance structure. The corridor would provide a space for the coordinated development of infrastructure such as road, rail, transmission, pipeline and communication.

Please join The School of Public Policy for a continuation of the webinar series that presents new research fundamental to investigating the feasibility, desirability and acceptability of the corridor concept. Each webinar is tied to an existing research paper and will include Q&A with the researchers.