...- COVID-19 has provided a catalyst for renewed health care infrastructure spending by Canadian provinces. - Given provinces' need for balancing priorities, the public-private partnership (P3) model could play a more important role in delivering increased investments in health care. - Canada's P3 activity peaked in 2015. Since then, health care P3s lost steam compared to transportation sector investments. Our rated Canadian health care P3's construction and operation performance has been robust so far, although P3s are exposed to unique challenges. In a 2014 speech, President Obama said "There may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly, and in order for us to deal with that effectively we have to put in place an infrastructure, not just here at home but globally, that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly, so that if and when a new strain of flu like the Spanish flu crops up five years from now or a decade from...