Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2019-02-21 15:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Meg Davis (Chief Development Officer, Waterfront Toronto)",
        "fr": "Mme Meg Davis (directrice du d\u00e9veloppement, Waterfront Toronto)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5802725\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Good afternoon, <em>bonjour</em>, and thank you for your invitation to speak today. My name is Meg Davis. I am the chief development officer at Waterfront Toronto. With me is Kristina Verner, Waterfront Toronto's vice-president of innovation, sustainability and prosperity. She has worked in the field of intelligent and smart communities for over 20 years. We are pleased to have the opportunity to share with this committee background on Waterfront Toronto and our Quayside project, and the roles and responsibilities of Waterfront Toronto and our innovation funding partner, Sidewalk Labs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802726\" data-originallang=\"en\">Of particular interest to this committee, we also want to address the policy considerations presented by the Quayside project and Waterfront Toronto's perspective on those matters. Let me assure the committee that Waterfront Toronto is approaching the Quayside project with the full force of the fundamental right to privacy, beyond the strict letter of the law.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802727\" data-originallang=\"en\">For those of you not familiar with Waterfront Toronto, we were created in 2001 by the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario and the City of Toronto. We were given a mandate to transform 800 hectares of former industrial lands on the shores of Lake Ontario into thriving neighbourhoods that grow our economy and improve the quality of life. I'm proud to say that the revitalization of Toronto's waterfront is the largest urban redevelopment project currently under way in North America, and it is one of the most significant waterfront revitalization efforts ever undertaken in the world. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802728\" data-originallang=\"en\">This unique tri-government model is clearly working. Since Waterfront Toronto's inception, we have helped generate over $10 billion in new private sector investment and create 26 hectares of new public spaces, including award-winning iconic parks such as Canada's Sugar Beach and Corktown Common. This investment helped create over 14,000 full-time years of employment, 5,000 new residential units, about 600 affordable housing units and 1.5 million square feet of commercial office space to date.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802729\" data-originallang=\"en\">As members of this committee are aware, in March 2017, Waterfront Toronto launched an international request for proposals seeking an innovation and funding partner to transform part of the waterfront called Quayside. This innovation and funding partner would help create a plan for the future neighbourhood and address key priorities, including fighting climate change by radically reducing energy consumption and household waste; offering affordable housing to families and single people alike; reducing traffic congestion and improving road safety for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists; and creating jobs and prosperity by serving as a testbed for Canada's clean tech, building materials, and broader innovation-driven sectors.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802730\" data-originallang=\"en\">The goals we set for Quayside are about using innovation and new ideas to deliver a better, more affordable quality of life. Protecting data and privacy are integral to the realization of these goals. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802731\" data-originallang=\"en\">Like you, Waterfront Toronto is committed to ensuring the use of technology to facilitate better services for people, while at the same time absolutely protecting personal privacy. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802732\" data-originallang=\"en\">After a rigorous competitive selection process, Sidewalk Labs was selected as our innovation and funding partner. Their sole job at this point in time is to prepare for our consideration a master innovation and development plan, or MIDP, for Quayside. They are spending up to $50 million of their own money to prepare this plan. As Kristina will elaborate, the plan will be subject to approval, which is contingent upon the protection of privacy as a condition.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802733\" data-originallang=\"en\">Waterfront Toronto has developed a rigorous process to evaluate the MIDP. This evaluation will use subject matter experts and a due diligence panel, and it will seek public input on the MIDP through consultations. The plan will be reviewed by all levels of government and Waterfront Toronto's board of directors. If approved, any MIDP proposals will be subject to all usual federal and provincial regulations, and municipal planning approvals.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802734\" data-originallang=\"en\">To be clear, if the MIDP proposed by Sidewalk Labs does not deliver on these priorities in a manner that is in the public interest, then the proposed plan will not be approved by Waterfront Toronto and will not be implemented.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802735\" data-originallang=\"en\">I'd like now to turn the microphone over to Kristina Verner to discuss our approach to the protection of privacy.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5802725\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Bonjour, et merci de nous avoir invit\u00e9es \u00e0 compara\u00eetre devant vous aujourd'hui. Je m'appelle Meg Davis et je suis directrice du d\u00e9veloppement \u00e0 la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Waterfront Toronto. Je suis accompagn\u00e9e de Kristina Verner, vice-pr\u00e9sidente, Innovation, durabilit\u00e9 et prosp\u00e9rit\u00e9, de Waterfront Toronto. Elle travaille dans le domaine des collectivit\u00e9s intelligentes et ing\u00e9nieuses depuis plus de 20 ans. Il nous fait plaisir de pr\u00e9senter au Comit\u00e9 un aper\u00e7u de Waterfront Toronto et son projet intitul\u00e9 Quayside ainsi que ses r\u00f4les et responsabilit\u00e9s et ceux de son partenaire en innovation et en financement, Sidewalk Labs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802726\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous nous arr\u00eaterons sur ce qui int\u00e9resse le Comit\u00e9, soit les principes politiques du projet Quayside et le point de vue de Waterfront Toronto sur ces questions. Je peux vous confirmer que le projet Quayside repose principalement sur le droit fondamental \u00e0 la protection de la vie priv\u00e9e et qu'il le traite bien au-del\u00e0 de la lettre de la loi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802727\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas Waterfront Toronto, les gouvernements du Canada, de l'Ontario et de la Ville de Toronto l'ont cr\u00e9\u00e9 en 2001. Cet organisme a pour mandat de transformer 800 hectares d'anciennes terres industrielles situ\u00e9es sur les rives du lac Ontario en quartiers prosp\u00e8res afin de stimuler l'\u00e9conomie et d'am\u00e9liorer la qualit\u00e9 de vie. Je peux vous assurer avec fiert\u00e9 que la revitalisation du secteur riverain de Toronto est le projet de r\u00e9am\u00e9nagement le plus grandiose actuellement en cours en Am\u00e9rique du Nord et l'un des plus importants au monde.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802728\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce mod\u00e8le de gestion tripartite fonctionne tr\u00e8s bien. Depuis la cr\u00e9ation de Waterfront Toronto, nous avons r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 attirer plus de 10 milliards de dollars en nouveaux investissements du secteur priv\u00e9 et \u00e0 cr\u00e9er 26 hectares d'espaces publics, dont des parcs embl\u00e9matiques comme ceux de Sugar Beach et de Corktown Common. Cet investissement a permis de cr\u00e9er plus de 14 000 emplois \u00e0 temps plein, 5 000 logements r\u00e9sidentiels, environ 600 logements abordables et 1,5 million de pieds carr\u00e9s de locaux \u00e0 bureaux commerciaux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802729\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme les membres du Comit\u00e9 le savent, en mars 2017, Waterfront Toronto a lanc\u00e9 un appel d'offres international afin d'obtenir les appuis et le financement n\u00e9cessaires pour transformer une partie du secteur riverain appel\u00e9 Quayside. Le partenaire ainsi s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 allait aider \u00e0 concevoir un plan du futur quartier. Il aborderait des priorit\u00e9s cruciales comme la lutte contre les changements climatiques en r\u00e9duisant radicalement la consommation d\u2019\u00e9nergie et les d\u00e9chets m\u00e9nagers, en offrant des logements abordables aux familles et aux personnes seules, en r\u00e9duisant les embouteillages afin d'am\u00e9liorer la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des automobilistes, des pi\u00e9tons et des cyclistes. Ce projet vise \u00e0 cr\u00e9er de l'emploi et de la prosp\u00e9rit\u00e9. Il servira de banc d\u2019essai aux secteurs canadiens novateurs de la technologie et des mat\u00e9riaux de construction propres.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802730\" data-originallang=\"en\">Notre projet Quayside vise donc \u00e0 concr\u00e9tiser des id\u00e9es novatrices pour produire une bonne qualit\u00e9 de vie abordable. La protection des donn\u00e9es et la vie priv\u00e9e font partie int\u00e9grante de la r\u00e9alisation de ces objectifs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802731\" data-originallang=\"en\">Waterfront Toronto partage votre engagement d'utiliser la technologie pour am\u00e9liorer la prestation de services aux citoyens tout en maintenant une confidentialit\u00e9 absolue.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802732\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 la suite de notre rigoureux processus de s\u00e9lection comp\u00e9titif, nous avons choisi la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Sidewalk Labs comme partenaire en innovation et en financement. \u00c0 l'heure actuelle, son seul travail consiste \u00e0 pr\u00e9parer notre plan d\u2019innovation et de d\u00e9veloppement pour le projet Quayside. Elle a accept\u00e9 d'investir jusqu\u2019\u00e0 50 millions de dollars pour pr\u00e9parer ce plan. Comme Kristina vous l'expliquera, l'approbation de ce plan d\u00e9pendra fortement de sa capacit\u00e9 de prot\u00e9ger la vie priv\u00e9e. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802733\" data-originallang=\"en\">Waterfront Toronto a mis au point un processus rigoureux pour \u00e9valuer ce plan. Nous ferons appel \u00e0 des experts en la mati\u00e8re et nous cr\u00e9erons un comit\u00e9 de diligence raisonnable pour obtenir les commentaires du public sur le plan. Tous les ordres de gouvernement et le conseil d\u2019administration de Waterfront Toronto l'examineront \u00e9galement. Une fois ce plan approuv\u00e9, chaque \u00e9l\u00e9ment que l'on mettra en oeuvre devra respecter tous les r\u00e8glements f\u00e9d\u00e9raux et provinciaux qui le r\u00e9gissent et devra recevoir l'approbation des planificateurs municipaux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802734\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pr\u00e9cisons que si le plan que nous pr\u00e9sente Sidewalk Labs ne respecte pas ces priorit\u00e9s de mani\u00e8re \u00e0 favoriser l'int\u00e9r\u00eat sup\u00e9rieur de la population, Waterfront Toronto ne l'approuvera pas et ne le mettra pas en oeuvre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5802735\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais maintenant passer la parole \u00e0 Kristina Verner, qui vous expliquera nos proc\u00e9dures de protection de la vie priv\u00e9e.</p>"
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