Thank you for that recognition of our size. We're now at 65,000, so we actually consider ourselves mid-sized.
We're fairly urbanized, as we're just outside of Edmonton, but we have developed this master plan very locally. We call ourselves the Alberta Smart City Alliance, and we've recognized a couple of things through the foundation of the alliance. We've recognized that the smaller municipalities of 1,000-odd people, which have only one administrator running the entire municipality, do not have the capacity for some of the interesting technologies that are helping to improve the efficiencies of the larger municipalities. That initial recognition made us understand that we need to do it in partnerships and with collaboration. Through the alliance, we can share our ideas and share our capacity with administrative staff, etc.
We recognize that broadband is a huge focus in Canada in connecting the very small rural communities, but as a mid-sized community, we were also feeling that while the big cities have the capacity and the smaller and rural municipalities are getting a lot of help from the federal government, the mid-sized ones were getting lost in the conversation. We have taken the approach that we're going to work with both the big and the small and, in that way, we're all going to benefit from the final outcome.
We were really happy to hear about the CRTC ruling about providing broadband with download speeds of 50 megabits per second for everyone in Canada. Even though St. Albert is fairly urban, we don't have that in every corner of our municipality, especially in some of our business parks. If we want to remain competitive in our region, we need to be able to attract businesses, and they need that heavy speed—up and down—to be attracted to our community. In many ways, we are struggling to provide that to them. We feel that the federal government needs to recognize the mid-sized cities as well.