Absolutely.
One of the things I like to say is that in Edmonton, open government is not new. We've been doing it since 1905, when we joined Confederation.
Using technology enables us to have a deeper level of engagement. If you look at some of the issues in Edmonton over the last little while, whether at the municipal airport or the downtown arena, there have been the traditional public meetings but also a whole host of online social media. So to me, open government is doing what we've always done in this country at all levels of government; but now, with the technology enabling us to have a deeper level of engagement and faster engagement, we leverage it.
Why is it important to Canadians? First of all, we're standing still right now. If we keep standing still and everybody else is moving forward, we are going to move back. We need to do something. As I said earlier, we had a leadership position in the 1990s around e-government and we've lost it. I think it's easy to regain. It's important for national pride, from a heritage perspective. We have done so many great things in this country that other people have taken as theirs—basketball, hockey, insulin—and we have had huge leadership in the use of technology in government, and I think we just need to get back to a leadership position.