Transport committee  I have three quick things: First, in terms of your remarks about building a global city, we're seeing this kind of practice being embedded in cities from L.A. to London to Glasgow. This is part and parcel of how cities and governments are extracting more value from the developme

Transport committee  I do. However, the devil is always in the implementation details, so you want something that sets an expectation of a certain kind of behaviour. Then you want to make sure that you put the appropriate supports in place to operationalize them within the context of the regulations.

Transport committee  I think we need to set some ambition and expectation in terms of being interested in access for communities that have not traditionally been able to engage in the trades or professional, administrative, and technical jobs associated with this type of infrastructure development. I

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  I think it's when you get into the authorization that you begin to look at early setting of targets as part of assessing a project. You look at putting accountability measures in place and, yes, I think that you do look at monitoring and compliance, and for those who fail to comp

Transport committee  In addition to training, we would think about benefits like first source hiring, procurement from small and mid-size organizations and enterprises, and affordable housing offsets as part of a development process, along with other forms of neighbourhood amenities. As well, I would

Transport committee  Absolutely. We would encourage stronger language. We understand from looking at policy in the U.K. The U.K. government passed its own legislation, the Public Services (Social Value) Act in 2012, and it spoke to consideration of community benefits. Therefore, it leaves it very wid

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