Canadian Heritage committee  Well, I think it's ideal to be locally responsive, to make these contexts dependent, depending on local needs. As I intended to illustrate, there are so many different models and different ways to do it, and that is quite preferable. To the point of community hubs, cultural hub

Canadian Heritage committee  One of the things that's interesting about it is that Copenhagen is allowing these kinds of regulatory experimentation sandboxes and trying out this kind of thing to see what happens, to study what happens, and to build up an evidence base to see if it should be enshrined in rule

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  Again, there are a lot of questions, but I'll try to be quick. Yes, absolutely, multi-sectoral, I think, is key in getting these done for the various strengths and thought processes that the different sectors bring. One of the reasons we initiated the Future Cities initiative wa

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. One of the things that we're all finding increasingly is that we have these extraordinary assets strategically located in our cities—libraries, post offices in particular, schools, etc.—and we see those as holding huge opportunity for investment to be reused, but very often

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you so much, Madam Chair, and committee members. I appreciate the opportunity to be here. I am honoured to speak on behalf of McConnell Foundation today. The timing for such a study couldn't be better. Many signs indicate that we're at a transformative moment in how we col