I think in the context of Canada specifically, our federated framework is obviously dissimilar to those of other jurisdictions, but the jurisdictions I'm comparing us to now are also Commonwealth countries. There are some comparisons among those. Geographically a country like Australia is also fairly large and geographically diverse. It has a lot of very similar cultural circumstances and cultural history to Canada's as well. I think there are no legislative barriers to anything that I've been suggesting on the federal government playing a role in working with provinces and municipalities to actually be a catalyst for the development of better data architecture for infrastructure. In fact, arguably, the federal government is best placed in Canada to start doing that, to have a standard system by which all infrastructure is inventoried in Canada.
On April 16th, 2018. See this statement in context.