Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 Financing Urban Infrastructure: Should Users Pay? -- 2 Financing Urban Infrastructure in Canada: Overview, Trends, and Issues -- 3 Paying for Water in Ontarioâ#x80;#x99;s Cities: Where Have We Come from and Where Should We Go? -- 4 Financing Urban Infrastructure in Quebec: Use of Fees in the Water and Transportation Sectors -- 5 User Charges for Municipal Infrastructure in Western Canada -- 6 The Role of User Charges in Funding the Flow of US Infrastructure Services
7 Financing Environmental Infrastructures through Tariffs: The Polluter/User-Pays Principle, Swiss Way8 The Role of User Fees in Urban Transportation Publicâ#x80;#x93;Private Partnerships: Canada in a Global Perspective -- 9 Why We Should but Donâ#x80;#x99;t Pay the Right Prices for Urban Infrastructure -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary
Why it is best that users, instead of the federal or provincial taxpayers, pay for public infrastructure