Information & Ethics committee  Let me give you an example. Right now under the regulations and the building code of the City of Toronto, you cannot have a wood building that is more than six storeys high. We believe buildings of, I think, up to 18- to 20-storeys high are possible, and we've seen it in Vancouve

Information & Ethics committee  This is a big deal.

Information & Ethics committee  The biggest thing is that you can reduce the cost at scale by almost 20%, which we think could be a major contributing factor to achieving affordability.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think we have a point of view on that. I think we can see strong arguments for a variety of different alternatives, including, as we've said, a new independent body under the auspices of Waterfront Toronto or any of the three levels of government, or it could simply be an

Information & Ethics committee  Again, I probably can argue it a bunch of different ways. The City of Toronto has an incredibly competent civil service, and—

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Again, since I'm not a developer who works extensively in the GTA or—

Information & Ethics committee  We're talking about it being generated in a specific place.

Information & Ethics committee  As I said, I think an argument could be made which—

Information & Ethics committee  I do think of it generally as an exceptional circumstance. By default, we want urban data to be open, whether for us or for others. As we said, we also want it to be de-identified by default, but there may be situations where a case can be made that you don't ever get the value o

Information & Ethics committee  Not by us, that's exactly right.

Information & Ethics committee  No. His name was Chris Glaisek, a senior staff person at Waterfront Toronto. As I indicated before, Chris and I had worked together back in the late 1990s and early 2000s on the New York Olympic bid. Chris was one of the planners for that bid that I led.

Information & Ethics committee  Let me clarify that. First of all, let me also put some context around your quote from Mr. Schmidt. He was joking. At that point, Mr. Schmidt paused for laughs from the audience. He then said, “it's not how it works, guys. For all sorts of good reasons, by the way. It doesn't wor

Information & Ethics committee  It's not exempted from Canadian law; it is for regulations and laws potentially to be changed in order to enable the initiatives that will make possible the achievement of the goals that Waterfront Toronto established. Let me give you a very simple example.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think we're suggesting that it shouldn't be the City of Toronto. What we are suggesting is that having a mix of experience to make decisions about the types of data that really have never been thought about deeply before might be the best way to manage it effectively, tak

Information & Ethics committee  I think the default is that it will be open. There may be situations where we have to invest an awful lot of money to create an application or use that we believe has value both in this place and potentially beyond, where we could also apply to the data trust—