In a 595-page annual report to the legislature that blasted a “high-risk” $224-million government loan for the medical and related sciences (MaRS) tower, Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk said Infrastructure Ontario’s use of private-public partnerships has cost $8 billion more than traditional public financing…. But Infrastructure Ontario CEO Bert Clark said the “$8 billion number does not tell the whole story” because large-scale publicly funded projects – such as the troubled Union Station renovation and the slow-moving Spadina subway extension to 91ɫ – routinely suffer from cost overruns and delays, reported the Toronto Star Dec. 9. .
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