This is one of those areas where—I'm not sure if it's a demographic issue, but it's certainly a skills issue—a lot of municipalities are facing this mass exodus of building professionals, for example. In Ontario, I met with the building officials association. A lot of them are getting close to retirement, so there are not a lot of people coming up through.
This is why I wonder about it as a tool. It's because what is an existing problem is only going to get worse if there are fewer people. Of course, you then lose institutional memory and those years of experience in the community and in the industry. I see the concern that some people may have that it's going to displace people, but I also wonder if it's not, in many ways, the natural progression of technology changing how we do things.
I think back to a speech I heard when someone was talking about innovation and the economy. The point they made was that when they invented CDs, nobody cried big tears for the vinyl record industry, because we stopped making those kinds of things. There are things that we just don't make anymore because technology has changed. There are many jobs that exist today that didn't exist before. There are lots of careers that exist today that no one had even dreamt of 20 years ago.
Could you speak a bit more about this? It seems exciting to me, yet I also feel very much like the conversation around this is edged with some trepidation or something.
Am I reading that correctly?