Canada Strategic Infrastructure Fund Act (S.C. 2002, c. 9, s. 47)

Marginal note:Establishment of program

• 3 (1) There is hereby established a program, to be called the Canada Strategic Infrastructure Fund, the object of which is to provide for the payment of contributions to eligible recipients for the carrying out of large-scale strategic infrastructure projects that contribute to economic growth or quality of life in Canada and that advance Canada’s objectives with respect to infrastructure.

• Marginal note:Public-private partnerships

  (2) The Fund shall, where appropriate, promote the use of partnerships between public and private sector bodies.

• Marginal note:Eligible recipients

  (3) The following are eligible recipients:

  • (a) a province or a municipal or regional government established by or under provincial legislation;

  • (b) a public sector body that is established by or under provincial legislation or by regulation or is wholly owned by a province or a private sector body that is in partnership with a province or a government referred to in paragraph (a), if the body

    • (i) carries out or, in the opinion of the Minister, is capable of carrying out an eligible project in Canada, and

    • (ii) has legal capacity, or is composed of organizations each of which has legal capacity; and

  • (c) a private sector body that

    • (i) carries out or, in the opinion of the Minister, is capable of carrying out an eligible project in Canada, and

    • (ii) has legal capacity, or is composed of organizations each of which has legal capacity.