We have the gas tax, like every other municipality in Canada, but we have not been directing any of that money toward smart city technology. This is really about the grassroots trying to push this forward from our local level.
While I don't like the word “trendy”, smart cities are becoming very elevated in priority in municipal magazines, etc. I've been going to conferences and trying to learn what I can. We did this essentially on our own, without the help of the federal government or even the provincial government. In our alliance, we have had collaboration from IBM, Cisco, and also the University of Alberta. It's really grassroots.