Transport committee  Yes, and not only from me. Quite a number of others have been doing very detailed studies on it. I did just that one example about Sweden, but we could follow up and get you some examples.

Transport committee  Thank you.

Transport committee  Who are you asking?

Transport committee  Oh good. Thank you. Let me just say, as Member Watts would know, that Surrey is a member of i-Canada, and so is Edmonton—it just became one of the top seven—but there are also west Parry Sound and all kinds of small communities. My point is that the federal government shouldn't

Transport committee  Don't be prescriptive. Create a national thing, fund cities—small cities and big ones—and have competitions. They will decide what they need. Small cities try to hold on to their young people so that they don't go to Surrey and big cities. That's the difference. Big cities have o

Transport committee  I think there are privacy issues as we go along, but they can be managed effectively. Unfortunately, like it is for all new technologies and approaches, there is a downside, and we've seen some of that. Cars have a downside—we kill a lot of people on the highways—and we have to b

Transport committee  In terms of mistakes, I don't think you want to be too prescriptive. For example, India is now trying to create a hundred smart cities, and of course they are sometimes masters of bureaucracy. They have tried to manage this thing centrally and have created one czar for smart citi

Transport committee  Yes. In particular, the U.K. government and even the one in the States are funding it, but these communities got together and created their own board of directors. It's somebody that the government is funding, but they're doing their own thing. One point I like to make is that

Transport committee  That's a great question. Thank you. First, we need to have a decent level of broadband. For a federal program, it's important to have large cities, small cities, and remote and rural communities in it. In Nova Scotia, for example, with i-Canada we've been creating i-Valley in

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, and I have to tell you that I think I took the wrong turn and I'm in your riding near Richmond Hill. It's my pleasure to be here today. Thank you. This is my 23rd year of direct involvement in digitally driven urban transformation, commonly called “smar