That's okay.
At any rate, I have to preface my comments, Madam Chair, by saying that we're here talking about smart cities and, in my opinion, smart cities go beyond what can be. They deal as well with what is and what was. It's really about ensuring that we deal with that as well.
Going to your comment, Mr. Quigley, it's critical that it begin with engaging our partners: the municipalities, the provinces, and the jurisdictions.
We've heard loud and clear today that collaboration—dismissing the silos—is extremely important. We've heard today about establishing a national strategy that may—or probably will—contain many strategies from individual jurisdictions plugging into a national strategy that then provides a mechanism from the federal and provincial governments to enable individual jurisdictions to move forward with those strategies. We've heard about co-creating and about taking on tech that includes all groups, all demographics. We heard about listening to the citizens, our customers, listening to the people, and listening to our communities.
We're fortunate, quite frankly, in that we have a great many qualified individuals, such as yourselves, who are all on the same page. We're talking from the same song sheet. We're all saying the same thing, including here at the committee, especially those of us who have very similar backgrounds and are coming from our former lives in municipalities as former mayors, councillors, volunteers, partners, and parts of different organizations.
Going beyond what we're all talking about in terms of the same language, what I really want to concentrate on now is next steps. How do we get there? On this side of the table, we really want to park the politics. We want to ensure that we establish a pragmatic agenda that's more of a “team Canada” approach that includes everyone—all parties in the House, all partners such as yourselves—in order to in fact take those next steps. What do you feel those next steps are?