cost-escalation guarantee scheme

cost escalation cover | cost escalation insurance

price escalation clause | cost escalation clause | escalation clause | escalator clause | price adjustment clause

Without those loan guarantees and with exposure to the risk of cost escalation, the banks would impose a very high interest rate, which would make the economics of nuclear power completely untenable.

We have a number of other recommendations: that the federal government resume providing 50% of cost-sharing funding for health care; that these funds be dedicated expressly for health care and guaranteed annually with an escalator clause for inflation; that the federal government restore dedicated funding separately for health, education, and social services that is, end block funding through the Canada health and social transfer, as the federal Auditor General recommended; that greater public and transparent accountability be established between the provincial, territorial, and federal governments to assure the public that funding is ...[+++] being spent as intended.

To add emphasis to Senator Bonnell's suggestion that students should be guaranteed mobility rights province to province, I would point out that increasing numbers of students are forced to continue to live at home while attending college or university, due not only to the escalating costs of their tuition but to the increased costs of living in residence and the decreasing percentage of dormitory or residence beds available to them.