Countries such as Switzerland, Germany and Australia either partner with their private sector or use it as a pressure-valve for the public system.

The province is on track to add more debt than it did during the 2008/09 recession and pandemic.

According to the plan, First Nations will become joint landlords of more than 90 per cent of the province.

Many environmental and social problems are better handled by bottom-up market forces, not top-down initiatives.