The Liberal government’s plan to create a national infrastructure bank is a recipe for greater bureaucracy rather than a remedy for improving longer-term economic prospects. Existing public agencies tasked with infrastructure development can already raise capital at reasonably low rates. Involving private sector investors will remain difficult, because the majority of infrastructure assets don’t generate revenues, so they almost always end up being funded by taxpayers.
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