Environment committee  We'll be using about two million cubic metres of fill and by doing that we'll be taking 200,000 diesel trucks off the road.

Environment committee  I'll try to be brief. We all know that if you don't know where you came from, you don't know where you're going, so that's really clear. I had the number one ward for graffiti. Everybody wanted to tag the waterfront. Kids were running rampant doing graffiti. That was prior to m

Environment committee  Yes, we just got the greenest ward award.

Environment committee  Are you talking about the legacy project? Absolutely, it'll create jobs. When we started doing the modelling in 2006, we did 15,000 residential units at $200 per square foot. Of course, nobody can build in the GTA for $200. It was over $2 billion, so there are all those constru

Environment committee  Actually, many of my friends, when we sit down and talk about this, wonder why we need provincial governments, to be honest with you. I know it sounds crazy, but they're all thinking that. The city of Mississauga has 740,000 people. It's the size of some provinces. Something ha

Environment committee  I want to make a quick comment on the Inspiration Lakeview site. We're going to be using two different water sources. You're absolutely right that we spend way too much to clean and chlorinate water. We don't use chlorine anymore; we ozonate our water at my water plant. It's a mu

Environment committee  Sorry, I wanted to make a comment on the economics part of it. The OPG site, the 275 acres, staff has estimated the cost of remediation of that to be between $300,000 and $500,000 an acre. Of course, being that it's in the central part of the GTA, that land, once it's remediated

Environment committee  The question was on whether the federal government should have more funding for—

Environment committee  Absolutely. We found that they were really worried when they built Hammarby in Sweden. They built six storeys. They built it as green as they possibly could. It's the most environmentally sustainable community in the world. It's actually the highest valued real estate in the enti

Environment committee  I'll give a quick answer. I agree with you. I think all three levels do need to work together. I spent 30 years in the private sector. I was absolutely stunned with how little money our city has, even though we're one of the few cities in Canada that has no debt. We issued our

Environment committee  I was in construction project management for years and years. In 1994 the government of the day had said that we needed to start to densify our communities and we needed to start getting more use out of the infrastructure that we had, and we needed to stop degrading the environ

Environment committee  It's really interesting. I've been studying planning for at least a dozen years now and I love reading planning studies. It sounds a little odd, but I do love reading planning studies. There is a fellow named Jan Gehl, in Copenhagen. He's a professor. He's famous all over the w

Environment committee  Point of order, Madam Clerk has to set things up for my presentation.

Environment committee  Thank you very much. I do apologize for that. I'd like to thank you very much for allowing me to appear today. I'm actually an accidental politician. The image you're looking at right now is my community. That's what my community looked like for 43 years. At the time it was buil