Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  I'll be here, yes.

Transport committee  Absolutely. I think there is already a movement within FCM to get that started. There are resolutions that they will be voting on this June on that subject.

Transport committee  I'd love to. When I think of private industry, I know there are companies like IBM and Cisco, but there are also the telecommunication companies. I think that's what you're getting at. We haven't really spoken about the telecommunication companies. In my opening arguments, I t

Transport committee  Does your former CAO work for the City of St. Albert?

Transport committee  I'm sorry, but I didn't know that.

Transport committee  I'll repeat some of what I said in my opening remarks. We really want the Canadian digital strategy to be amended to include smart city stuff. That's broad terminology, “smart city stuff”, but it will harmonize the country, I think, in a focus on smart cities. In response to th

Transport committee  I absolutely would agree with that, yes. There are also some regional and local strategies. If you were rolling out anything new, then you might want to recognize not the ad hoc integration of technologies but a very thought-out and well-pursued strategy in each municipality and/

Transport committee  Yes, so if there's any money, send it to St. Albert.

Transport committee  In the approach for smart cities, I think you need to remember that.... I'll use St. Albert again as an example. We have a brand. We're “The Botanical Arts City”, so the smart city recognition that St. Albert gets is not our brand. We didn't set out to be a smart city. We set out

Transport committee  What other municipalities are using the technologies? Is that your question?

Transport committee  I'm not exactly aware of specifically how they're engaging with the residents, but I do see the opportunity for the technologies to allow better engagement. For example, last night, the mayor of Edmonton held a Facebook Live conversation about their LRT expansion. It's a great

Transport committee  That's fine.

Transport committee  I mentioned our capital region board. There was actually a ministerial order by the province that we had to work together. That's in the Edmonton region. Further south in Alberta, the Calgary region does not have that same ministerial order, and they have struggled in trying to f

Transport committee  I think that even just having this conversation is helpful. As we mentioned earlier, one of our recommendations is to amend the digital strategy to include a national strategy on smart cities. A lot of this, as was mentioned by one of the previous presenters, is a matter of pol