Letter of the Day: P3 model bankrupt as public policy

Reagan Seidler’s letter (SP, Feb. 12) on the benefits of P3s contains a number of errors that need to be addressed. While Seidler is correct that “private contractors always build things for government,” that is not the essence of the P3 model.
Traditional contracts always used private contractors for public builds, the P3 adds private financing (always more costly than government borrowing) and decades long maintenance contracts that in the case of the North Battleford hospita