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Planning for Infrastructure to Realize Canada's Potential: The Corridor Concept

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  • Andrei Sulzenko

    (The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary)

  • G. Kent Fellows

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Canada in 2016 faces new and uniquely modern challenges. At the same time, our prosperity largely depends on our nineteenth and twentieth century accomplishments. Canada was built by visionaries who were able to overcome massive geographic and topographic challenges to create a great trading country, bound together and made successful by infrastructure projects like the trans-continental railways, highways and the St. Lawrence Seaway. But as we approach the 150th anniversary of Confederation, today’s Canada faces serious challenges to its continued growth and prosperity as a trading country; challenges that are political and economic as well as geographic: improving access for our goods to diversified international markets, improving interprovincial trade and, most importantly, including the north in the prosperity of the south. Is there a way to unite Canada economically east, west, north and south, to bring badly needed trade diversification, and to encourage private investment in national infrastructure projects? The School of Public Policy and CIRANO have done initial research on this issue, and we conclude that there are strong grounds to start a discussion about a Northern Corridor rightof-way.

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  • Andrei Sulzenko & G. Kent Fellows, 2016. "Planning for Infrastructure to Realize Canada's Potential: The Corridor Concept," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 9(22), May.
    • Handle: RePEc:clh:resear:v:9:y:2016:i:22
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    1. David Large & Ahmad Teymouri, 2023. "A Review of Funding and Financing Models for Infrastructure Corridor Megaprojects, and Implications for the Canadian Northern Corridor," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 16(13), April.
    2. Nathan S. Debortoli & Tristan D. Pearce & James D. Ford, 2023. "Estimating Future Costs for Infrastructure in the Proposed Canadian Northern Corridor at Risk From Climate Change," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 16(6), March.
    3. Andrei Sulzenko & Katharina Koch, 2020. "Governance Options for a Canadian Northern Corridor," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 13(27), November.
    4. Steven M. Vamosi, 2023. "Species and Areas Under Protection: Challenges and Opportunities for the Canadian Northern Corridor," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 16(18), June.
    5. G. Kent Fellows & Katharina Koch & Alas Munzur & Robert Mansell & Pierre-Gerlier Forest, 2020. "The Canadian Northern Corridor: Planning for National Prosperity," SPP Briefing Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 13(28), December.
    6. Cherie Metcalf, 2023. "Indigenous Land Ownership and Title in Canada: Implications for a Northern Corridor," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 16(7), March.
    7. Jenanne Ferguson & Evgeniia (Jen) Sidorova, 2023. "The Usage of Indigenous Languages as a Tool for Meaningful Engagement With Northern Indigenous Governments and Communities," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 16(12), April.
    8. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2021. "Constraints in the Canadian Transport Infrastructure Grid," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 14(6), February.
    9. David V. Wright, 2020. "Cross-Canada Infrastructure Corridor, the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and 'Meaningful Consultation'," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 13(24), October.
    10. Frédéric Lasserre, 2022. "Canadian Arctic Marine Transportation Issues, Opportunities and Challenges," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 15(6), February.
    11. Shirley Thompson & Stewart Hill & Annette Salles & Tanzim Ahmed & Ajarat Adegun & Uche Nwankwo, 2023. "The Northern Corridor, Food Insecurity and the Resource Curse for Indigenous Communities in Canada," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 16(20), June.
    12. Anthony E. Boardman & Mark Moore & Aidan Vining, 2020. "Financing and Funding Approaches for Establishment, Governance and Regulatory Oversight of the Canadian Northern Corridor," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 13(25), October.
    13. Sharon Mascher, 2022. "Indigenous Land Rights in Australia: Lessons for a Canadian Northern Corridor," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 15(33), December.

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