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Canada’sInfrastructure Needs:Key Elements of a NationalInfrastructure FrameworkThe five Town Hall Meetings identified several important issues not directly associated withtechnology: policy and standards, legislative framework, and resources. Combining these issueswith the issues considered by the TRM establishes a framework for a national policy that canrespond to Canada’s infrastructure needs. These non-technical issues are described below sothat stakeholders can account for them in their action plans. Technology could also supportactions in these domains. This list is not exhaustive but can lead to future discussions.Policy and StandardsPolicy and standards include performance specifications, procurement and fiscal framework.One key issue relates to present procurement practices, typically prescriptive and based on P A G E 2 3
lowest initial cost. These practices are viewed as significant barriers to innovation and as thecause of reduced service lives and sub-optimum investment returns. Solutions to changing thepresent procurement philosophy include performance-based specifications and life-cycle costaccounting.Another major concern of the Town Hall Meetings is the valuation and reporting/accountingof infrastructure assets. Although several initiatives across Canada and the U.S. are addressingthis, numerous issues remain, such as how to quantify and integrate the engineering, socialand environmental values of the assets, the total and residual life of the infrastructure andhow the asset value is reported and to whom. Solutions to these issues should lead to uniform/standardized methods of economic analysis.Legislative FrameworkThe CIS community feels that several policies and standards issues, including asset valuation,accounting, reporting and life-cycle costing, should be legislated.Finally, because infrastructure systems are crucial to the safety and the economic and social wellbeing of Canadians, the TRM participants support legislation to require the certification ofoperators of critical systems.ResourcesThe infrastructure industry is a resource-intensive sector that requires financial, human, naturaland material resources. Funding infrastructure remains a great concern for the industry. TheTRM participants recommend mandated organizations at all levels of government to exploreand establish innovative funding mechanisms, and to include private sector stakeholders in thisapproach. Subjects retained under funding mechanisms include:• developing and implementing user-pay technologies;• basing decisions on life-cycle costs and benefits;• using full-cost accounting;• making decisions according to sound demand-management analyses; and• developing and sharing innovative funding mechanisms, possibly with legislativechanges to allow more private sector participation.Several issues relating to highly qualified labour and skills were retained as critical to CIS.These include education programs at all levels, succession planning, accreditation/certificationprograms, collaborations between labour training organizations and the industry, and workbasededucation such as co-op programs at universities and colleges.It is important to address the non-technology issues raised by the development of the TRM. Itis recommended that a National Round Table for Infrastructure be created so that stakeholderscan more effectively cooperate in developing recommendations for action on policy andstandards issues, legislative and resources issues.P A G E 2 4
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