Action4Canada - Eye on Calgary Video 4 - Background to Climate Emergency Declaration

00:00:00.000 Welcome to part 4 in the series entitled Eye on Calgary. In this video we will take a look at how

00:00:13.680 many of the plans we are seeing now in regard to the climate agenda have actually been in place

00:00:22.380 for quite some time and we will look at some of the evidence there. We will also look more

00:00:29.580 in depth at the theme within the climate document entitled Zero Carbon Neighborhoods

00:00:36.780 and in particular the land use planning under pathway H. We will also take a quick look at

00:00:45.480 the freedom of information that we learned from the city as well as taking a brief look at some

00:00:55.440 of the smart technologies that are already in place within the city of Calgary and that have

00:01:03.100 actually been there for quite some time. All right let's begin. And before I jump into some of the

00:01:12.220 other things that I want to show you here is that this is not new my friends. When we start to

00:01:18.640 take a deep dive there are many many documents such as the the 2020 transportation plan and please

00:01:28.800 remember transportation city planning go hand in hand and way back in 2008 they had some directives

00:01:38.400 that they wanted to to for land use and mobility and we can see some of these words that we're familiar

00:01:48.160 with now complete strengths link land use decisions to transit that all is related to

00:01:56.560 our environment in ways to reduce our emissions and again over here talking about parking this came

00:02:08.320 from the same document you can read for yourself but basically saying that by providing more parking it

00:02:18.160 just encourages vehicle use and it consumes useful land when you have to make a parking lot or a parking

00:02:24.800 garage and it's expensive to maintain so let's just solve this problem and because let's just make it

00:02:33.040 harder to park because if you put more parking options out there people are just gonna drive more and

00:02:39.200 that's not what we want right so it's been around for quite some time and when we talk about complete streets

00:02:47.600 well I had this all set up pretty but we'll just bring it all out here for you one was just supposed to

00:02:52.800 magically appear after the other complete streets so this is very familiar to me and I'm guessing it is

00:03:01.040 to you as well so they talk about complete streets and notice so many changes but notice how

00:03:12.960 that streets are made smaller so that we got lots of room for bicycles uh harder to drive down now just one lane

00:03:21.760 uh lovely yes they're putting up lots more trees i don't think anybody would complain about that

00:03:28.720 and the streets are going pardon me the buildings are going up as you've probably noticed the buildings

00:03:35.200 are going up it feels sort of a little tighter more sort of confined and we have all these businesses now

00:03:44.080 along the base of many of these apartments slash condo buildings that is by design notice here public

00:03:53.440 transport i will show you in the municipal development goal that is the plan to have

00:04:02.320 honestly we'll look at the numbers but almost as many people

00:04:05.680 people close to that are living in calgary right now to be living within not too far from a transit

00:04:14.400 a main transit um area so yeah so this is what they're going for and they were going for a long

00:04:20.480 time ago and i think many of you would agree it is here it has arrived so another one that i'll show you

00:04:28.320 quickly um again state of the city and again i've highlighted as i went through these savings were due to

00:04:38.000 the reduced amount of linear and spatial infrastructure that would be required from a smaller city footprint

00:04:44.800 so they do not want to expand the city urban sprawl it's called no we don't want urban sprawl because

00:04:51.680 that's bad for the environment we're going to be deg degregate our environment that's not good we need

00:04:58.000 instead to stay within the parameters we have and let's just go up or reconvert existing buildings

00:05:05.440 so that was in the plans all along and here again more highlighting um oh yes so when it comes to

00:05:16.240 this whole bylaw change right long time before this became a big issue accommodating some population

00:05:24.640 growth through redevelopment of wide land parcels with single family homes so are you an owner of

00:05:33.280 a single family home on a nice piece of land here in calgary well they could turn that into a multi-family

00:05:41.200 home like duplexes townhomes and multi-stored buildings and it can help to make it more affordable

00:05:47.440 for people to live in established communities it also enables people to find different types of homes in

00:05:53.200 the neighborhoods they live in as their needs change well doesn't that sound lovely but it doesn't get

00:05:58.560 into all of the things that would make life much more difficult which the people of calgary brought 1.00

00:06:05.920 forward to the attention of our city council and shaping a more compact urban form is one of the primary

00:06:13.840 goals of the municipal development plan and is supported by encouraging density and growth in the

00:06:22.320 developed areas activity centers and main streets well isn't that interesting how this was talked about

00:06:29.280 in a 2019 document much much before the housing issue became um came to the forefront uh and another little

00:06:39.760 screen grab for you and this came from and i showed it here uh transportation mobility use within the city

00:06:49.680 talking about a compact city um a good urban design uh sustainability so it's all there all the words

00:06:58.080 are there the greening the city it's all there you can pause uh to to read so it's been going on for quite

00:07:07.440 some time the development that's happening is based on a global cabals a perspective of what we the people

00:07:14.960 should be doing so with that said i'm going to pull up this one ah so again i was going to i wanted to show

00:07:25.840 here that some people might say oh well she's just making it up it's not necessarily the case well the odd

00:07:34.320 odd odd time it just pops up and it is right there so under program pathway i i just grabbed a screenshot of this

00:07:41.360 that um yeah they made it black and white for us right here which was lovely uh developed 20 30 and

00:07:50.880 2050 milestones for waste reduction aligned with the united nations sustainable development goals

00:07:57.920 on the development of a calgary consumption-based ghg inventory so there it is right in black and white for

00:08:06.240 us so with that said i i think i'm going to grab our document again and i want to show you just a couple

00:08:17.760 things now that you have um spent a little bit of time getting to know what the goals are understanding

00:08:26.720 what the doc or the goals of the sdgs the un's sustainable development goals now you know what the document looks

00:08:36.800 like a little bit more i am going to take us to uh let's go here page 40 so on page 40 um again this was part of

00:08:53.280 the i'm going to go back up here just to show you it's part of this theme on page 35 the zero carbon

00:09:02.000 neighborhoods so there was the theme uh pardon me program pathway f and then that was we shared that

00:09:11.760 a little bit and then here is h

00:09:14.560 so within and this is the area that i focused on a lot when i was going to speak to council on

00:09:25.920 saying no to the new zoning bylaws and basically i was bringing up to them that

00:09:32.240 within your 2050 document it is all there that you were planning this all along

00:09:38.080 not because at the time there was a housing crisis it's because uh of you our city you know following

00:09:48.560 the global cabal and wanting to go green but within it so you see i've highlighted all uh but i've double

00:09:55.840 highlighted our communities will transition to compact mixed use neighborhoods with abundant natural

00:10:02.080 infrastructure and where transit and active mode of transportation walking cycling are the preferred

00:10:08.720 mobility choice so there you see their mobility shift right or pardon me mode shift trying to get

00:10:15.200 people to drive less take public transportation more um land use planning is a key function of

00:10:21.520 municipal governments and the city of calgary has significant authority to influence the type and

00:10:27.280 quality of the urban form in calgary well isn't that interesting this i believe is a flip isn't it i think

00:10:37.600 they've forgotten that they work for us not the other way around and we certainly um do not uh follow uh

00:10:51.360 some united nations global cabal um telling us what to do in our own backyards um and again as the

00:10:59.600 calgary moves towards a denser urban form so a denser urban form what is that that's a compact city

00:11:07.440 right that is essentially a smart city and we'll talk a little bit more about the technology that they

00:11:15.360 have been using for quite some time so i just wanted to point out right local area plans that must align

00:11:23.440 with the climate strategy it's all there um development develop and implement net zero emissions and

00:11:32.560 climate resilient design guidelines for new and established communities so again these guidelines

00:11:40.160 being that your house has to be green or you need to retrofit your house uh any new buildings that go

00:11:45.920 up have to be done green and with green quote unquote green materials um and we must prioritize transit

00:11:54.640 orientated development in all phases of development mitigation adaptation all falls in there again as well

00:12:01.600 as well and let me move on to this next one so it's a little slow um incentivize and prioritize energy

00:12:11.840 efficient developments in all areas to these land use bylaw rules again the rules through land use bylaw

00:12:21.440 update enable increased housing types and support uses in residential areas to facilitate complete

00:12:28.160 communities and reduce dependency on private vehicles there it is laid out couldn't be more black and white

00:12:37.520 but it's also 41 pages into 42 pages deep into a document not easy to find consider viable options for

00:12:48.880 removing and or reducing motor vehicle parking minimums in residential areas to allow for more compact

00:12:54.720 development more efficient use of land and encourage alternate modes of transportation so it's all there my friends

00:13:01.920 all there their quote unquote green agenda it sounds very very similar to smart compact cities so it's all there

00:13:16.160 and that brings me to the end of that area on page 35 that was the start of it um right here the zero carbon neighborhoods

00:13:30.640 that is the big the big one there but there's so much more to explore within this document and as you can see

00:13:37.200 let's take them out a little while just to get to this point

00:13:40.640 so we're getting close to the end here i have a few more things that i want to share with you

00:13:46.480 and i'm going to get rid of this and so one of the things that i stumbled across in my research

00:13:55.680 and i want you to remember back when i showed you the uh sdgs on the united nations website

00:14:04.080 so what i stumbled across and this is um i'm i'm i'm ahead of the game here this is where i got it from

00:14:14.640 and the page that is from so if you wanted to search it up so they're using what they call core

00:14:21.520 indicators so the city of calgary is using these core indicators in regard to their plans

00:14:31.120 for the future of calgary and this means municipal development plan mdp and the calgary transportation

00:14:43.920 plan so those two are like tied at the hip so any development that occurs has to go hand in hand

00:14:53.360 with the transportation plan and all makes sense once you start to realize that ah this is what

00:15:00.480 the united nations goals are this is how they create a more compact city that has less impact

00:15:06.240 on the environment so we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions um and all very much related to things

00:15:15.440 like um esg as well for any of you out there which um i probably shouldn't go down that rabbit hole at the

00:15:22.480 moment but um let's just take a quick look at this so these are a little bit out of order because

00:15:29.760 within the document you know they number that one i think it's two what is it one two

00:15:38.800 seven no ten maybe highest number eleven so but they're these these ones here are bunched together

00:15:49.920 because they're core community indicators they're saying so it's kind of broke them apart and then

00:15:53.680 put them together in this um this chart so notice here everything that they're doing so i'll explain

00:16:02.160 just what i know and there's bet you first i'm certain out there that there are people who

00:16:06.480 understand this much better than i do but they're urban expansion so they don't want expansion

00:16:12.480 and what they were looking for percentage of population growth from 06 accommodated inside

00:16:20.400 the balance growth boundary so i'm curious what that is which is their balance growth boundary

00:16:27.280 i have a map that we can maybe pull up and and just at least share with you and then you can you

00:16:34.720 know kind of make your own um uh thoughts from it so 2018 as they were monitoring the progress their

00:16:45.360 target would be 50 percent but how things are trending right now like everything they're seeing and

00:16:52.320 studying about what's going on right now by 2039 they're only going to be at 18 percent

00:17:00.240 within inside the boundary growth i believe and even by 2076

00:17:08.320 only going to be 23 so basically they're not going to make the target at the moment

00:17:14.960 i will bring up that map is what i think they're looking at um density so do you remember what i showed

00:17:20.880 you that was 11 point um down here like i think 11.8 no so 11.3 was our proportion on the stg goals

00:17:33.840 people per hectare so what's our density right so they want to increase the density so um

00:17:42.400 um baseline we're kind of where they were in 2018 where they want to be 27 uh people per hectare

00:17:54.880 but they're trending right now for 30 so looks like they're on target for that and i think we

00:18:03.520 would probably all agree with how dense things have gotten in regard to um the condos going up you know

00:18:12.240 those tiny tiny row houses like just fitting people into this as many people as possible 0.97

00:18:16.800 into the smallest areas i think we could agree that that's definitely going on and then there's more

00:18:23.280 here um accessibility to needs residential mix mixed land use um this one i haven't studied a lot but

00:18:31.360 they're looking at all of that um i'll just go back to this so urban expansion

00:18:38.480 they don't want when i say they i'd say city planners um developers i'm not talking about them

00:18:48.240 i'm talking about the the city folk probably administration who you know they follow what

00:18:56.640 is happening at things like cop 26 and what the united nations wants um that you know cities are

00:19:04.080 a plight on the environment and they're taking up more and more land so a way to stay green is to not

00:19:13.440 expand no urban expansion would be what they would want um rodent infrastructure so looks like they're on

00:19:24.240 target for that and and this is the ratio and again i'm not up on all of that but i know for a fact

00:19:34.080 that the united nations right they want less less roads less less ease of mobility with with um

00:19:42.400 internal combustion vehicles right they want evs they want more uh they want to dictate you know

00:19:51.040 make people walk more make make people bike more that's okay really to to do that that's a healthy

00:19:57.280 thing but when we are following a global entity that is telling us to enforce telling our leaders

00:20:09.360 our elected officials to enforce it on the population um interesting here percent of population within 400

00:20:17.360 meters of a primary transit network do you know how close 400 meters is so primary transit here would be

00:20:25.920 like to a bus or to uh the the train so the their baseline was zero at one time in 2018 14 percent

00:20:38.640 um their target what they would like would be like 45 percent of the population uh 60 year target so

00:20:48.240 uh if we just run some numbers in 60 years they thought some of the projections are that two there

00:20:57.040 be two million two million people living within calgary so if we do 45 percent of two million people

00:21:03.600 that's 900 000 people living within 400 meters of some kind of primary transit network

00:21:11.440 that's a lot of people isn't it that calgary right now is 1.3 million so 900 000 getting close to a

00:21:20.080 million so almost not not the full population of calgary right now under that but living within 400

00:21:27.840 meters of a primary transit network on trend for 30 percent how many jobs within that 400 meters

00:21:35.600 they would like to have 67 of the jobs within this primary network so i'm just going to pop back here

00:21:47.680 that is where this comes in

00:21:52.240 train bus and the businesses along the base of the buildings getting people living there people working

00:22:01.200 there right close to transit that's the goal so that's the plan there and they are definitely achieving

00:22:11.440 it not necessarily a bad thing but when we're taking a direction again from the united nations and then we

00:22:21.040 actually have a process supposedly a democratic process where the people have their say whether or not they

00:22:28.240 want the housing um rezoning to happen and 80 plus percent people say no and then they still go forward

00:22:36.720 with it that is where we have a problem because we're not listening to the people not taking into account

00:22:42.240 what the people want that's where we have a problem and again so i won't get into a whole bunch

00:22:48.880 but the auto mode split for example how many people are using a percentage uh what's the percentage of

00:22:59.040 people that are using the automobile baseline it's gone down a little bit in 2018 and um they would like

00:23:07.920 it to be i would suspect on the low end 55 percent people using an automobile and i'm guessing that is an

00:23:15.200 internal combustion one there uh on trend for 71 which is in my opinion a good thing uh okay and then up

00:23:26.080 here i just put a few of the goals but anything related to transit um anything development of the city

00:23:33.120 though that is um for sure um goal 11 stg 11 and let's take one more look here

00:23:40.960 um population job balance well interesting i think they've achieved all of it and then more

00:23:49.200 um population to job balance so is that good is that bad that i'm not sure of they've achieved that

00:23:56.560 and then again seeing that um goods access your goods should be really close right because then

00:24:06.000 there's not a lot of greenhouse gas emissions that happen and transporting those goods to where they

00:24:10.880 need to be so 1.6 kilometers um the warehousing facility should be within to the primary network

00:24:20.080 um so they were like 95 percent to in as a six-year target but on goal for 77 percent so very interesting

00:24:31.840 there um i i just thought everyone would find that very interesting uh for the municipal development

00:24:40.400 goals indicators oh and i'm sorry i'm not done yet um water urban district energy so district energy i'm not

00:24:50.800 as familiar with except i understand that it is something that's underground and you can actually search

00:24:56.800 this up and read it that would provide enough energy for surrounding buildings um i'm not quite

00:25:04.720 versed on that and i haven't researched this one quite enough um trees trees are never a bad thing

00:25:11.760 right in my opinion um that is part of a plan to make uh the cities so you know because trees consume

00:25:22.640 carbon dioxide and apparently carbon dioxide is supposed to be so bad but nonetheless trees are great for

00:25:29.120 us um i don't have a big problem with trees um i think is actually probably a good thing ah and here

00:25:39.680 impervious surfaces the percent of the city area covered by impervious services surfaces so what that means

00:25:47.280 is how much of the city is covered by cement or uh would asphalt also fall in that category where the water

00:25:58.240 can't go through and it has to run off so anything about water running off in the opinion of uh the green

00:26:08.000 movement it's a bad thing because it also affects possible flooding which um we can all agree is a bad

00:26:17.200 thing um so it relates back to um the urban expansion right that's bad because then there's more

00:26:30.000 impervious surfaces like cement that have to go into place so not necessarily a bad thing either

00:26:37.120 i've seen um different types of materials that could be used where you know we could have more

00:26:43.120 of the water be absorbed in directly into the ground so there's not so much runoff and so it's not such a

00:26:49.600 flooding uh hazard and a concern like that um so when they talk about impervious surfaces

00:26:56.800 they want to up you know reduce that and look how much they would like to reduce it by 10 to 20 percent

00:27:04.640 and the target what they're on track for is 70 percent because we just keep on trucking right with our

00:27:11.440 development but if they have their way it's not going to happen okay so i am now at approximately

00:27:19.360 an hour and a half and i'm not quite done i'm almost there i'm almost there um there's a couple things

00:27:26.720 that i wanted to share because i do think that it's very very important um maybe before i jump into this

00:27:34.000 one last area i i want to show one more thing that i have for you so what i did is it's it's a little

00:27:44.880 um it's the right word here um primal is that is that what the word i should use um because it's just

00:27:54.160 me making a little shirt on my own actually i'm gonna maybe have to make it a touch smaller just so we

00:28:01.200 can see it all see if it'll let me okay so here's my chart it's not fancy but what i did is i put

00:28:09.200 down all the sdg goals along the side and then across the top the calgary climate plan and obviously

00:28:19.120 i haven't got into the adaptation part very much but you can imagine um maybe there'll be another

00:28:26.160 video on that but and what i decided to do is to go through every single theme and then the pathway

00:28:35.520 within the theme and if they happen to fall even just one time within the sdg goal then i

00:28:45.840 put a little dot there so let's see you can see that that's what i did i'm getting to come up and

00:28:53.840 i got to make it a little smaller so here you can see just it's just like to tuck into your back pocket

00:29:03.040 um these areas of no poverty zero hunger good health well-being that actually occurred the city has kind of

00:29:11.440 got that covered um in actually maybe i'll just go grab it for you do you remember when i showed

00:29:18.160 you this one um let me just i'm going to minimize this okay do you remember this if i can get it to come

00:29:30.320 up just takes a moment this so some of these others like quality education gender equality those sorts of

00:29:40.080 things no poverty zero hunger those are kind of covered by some of the other areas just just that's

00:29:46.560 just a little fyi for you to throw into your back pocket is all there so they don't it doesn't show up

00:29:54.480 a whole lot uh in in my opinion um when it comes to the calgary climate plan but notice um if you run

00:30:03.440 across right climate action falls into all of those for sure and if i may even do a little something

00:30:11.280 different where depending on the number of points that they have within each theme um show where the

00:30:18.720 most dots fall but even if it happened to be mentioned one time where yep that definitely falls into the

00:30:28.080 sdg of say life on land boom then it got it got a dot so there you have that there and i thought this

00:30:37.600 would be very very good to share with you and i thought people would really appreciate seeing this

00:30:45.680 so i'm going to get rid of this and sorry it takes a moment and i'm going to pop down here so i did a

00:30:53.040 freedom of information and we may not get a chance to get to the technology we'll see here

00:31:00.880 we can run through this pretty quickly but i did a freedom of information to the city of calgary

00:31:09.840 and i was actually at the time well i will just say i did not receive what i'd hoped to get from the

00:31:17.600 city i have to do another one and maybe what i'm looking for will show up but they did share

00:31:26.240 an area of climate because that's what i was most interested in so here you can see a bunch of numbers

00:31:32.960 and what's nice about the next one here is that they take climate and then they break it down even more

00:31:41.040 so in this document that i received and this was for the 2022 year and these are all the areas that

00:31:54.000 were covered in climate and then this is all of the money that was used so i remember this was 2022

00:32:05.440 in gondek she called the climate emergency in november of 21 and then the 2050 agenda came out climate

00:32:17.280 agenda in june of 2022 so this will cover it right so notice here to accelerate the climate strategy and

00:32:27.040 action plans that they had to hire 18 full-time employees now we don't know for certain if those

00:32:35.040 were new hires or just people moved in from different areas to work in this and one person came on board

00:32:47.200 for the energy efficiency retrofit so if that means retrofitting the city of calgary assets or just working

00:32:57.360 on that topic because they're definitely looking to have our buildings uh retrofitted to be energy

00:33:06.800 efficient because buildings emit so many greenhouse gas emissions so we must reduce we must reduce so

00:33:15.840 it works out to 19 full-time staff and you might be wondering well renee your map doesn't really quite

00:33:21.920 add up well i tell you what i added it all up but what i did was the hail storm tree replacement

00:33:33.360 uh they spent 1.2 million on that i thought okay i'm gonna give them that because hail storm tree

00:33:41.920 replacement trees are important for beautifying our city i have i don't have much of an issue with that

00:33:48.160 seems like a lot of money but anyway i've subtracted it and so in 2022 the city spent 8.9 million

00:33:58.720 dollars of your taxpayer dollars on the climate agenda that is absolutely insane

00:34:13.280 particularly when you look at what's happening with our water infrastructure for example

00:34:19.440 and that's a whole nother rabbit hole to go down for sure so here they're spending all of our money

00:34:31.200 on this pie in the sky green agenda and this is just one year of it we should be absolutely outraged

00:34:38.080 particularly when we look at this we put out 1.5 1.5 percent of the world's global

00:34:49.360 emissions infuriating to say the least okay so that's just something you can tuck in your back

00:34:56.720 pocket additionally i thought this would be of interest so hopefully people i know we're getting

00:35:03.920 on in time but you can you know watch this at 1.5 speed or something like that in addition to

00:35:11.440 the budget that i received um in the FOIP the freedom of information was this document so you can see

00:35:20.640 it's from the mayor to christia freeland there's many topics here but i thought it would be really

00:35:28.960 important for people to to see um a few things that i've highlighted i'll just go slow here because then

00:35:38.800 you can maybe go back and read some of the things that are interest to you but this i thought would be

00:35:50.560 of interest to people particularly with just what occurred um in the spring with the housing plan

00:36:00.480 so here they're talking about affordable housing they think they should get more money for it

00:36:05.760 etc etc etc and then the city is eager to see detailed program requirements for the housing

00:36:17.120 accelerator fund and would urge the government of canada to release the funding as quickly as possible

00:36:25.040 so if those if there's a few who are not sure the housing accelerator fund was that

00:36:32.320 carrot that the federal government was dangling out in front of city councils and municipalities so

00:36:42.080 basically saying um if you want this money to accelerate the housing within your cities and towns

00:36:50.960 then you have to agree to our uh green agenda um with regard to your housing

00:36:59.840 so it was a carrot stick that they were putting out in front and so it was believed that perhaps the city

00:37:10.480 had already accepted this housing fund and thus the push to have the zoning bylaws changed because that is what

00:37:22.640 the um federal government was saying um i should explain that a little bit better actually they were saying that

00:37:34.720 because i was saying green their green agenda well essentially it is because they're saying

00:37:40.480 in order to get this money then you need to change your zoning bylaws so where you have single family homes right now

00:37:47.200 you need to change it so that um a house you know a duplex uh a building that might have four

00:37:57.040 some of you remember better than myself four units within it actually could be no up to eight units in

00:38:02.240 it could be built on that parcel of land that right now has a single family detached home

00:38:07.360 so again that is green talk right um probably under the guise of you know this housing um

00:38:18.720 that that the housing problem not enough house as well it kind of works out really well that um the

00:38:24.720 city's been wanting to do this for uh years and years now and boom um all of a sudden they're getting a dangly carrot

00:38:32.400 that's saying ah well you know if you change the zoning bylaws you'll get all this money

00:38:36.640 for the housing so i think this is important to point out that they knew about this housing accelerator funds

00:38:42.880 now whether or not there was stipulations attached to it back in the day so that was sorry that was on page four

00:38:49.840 i'm just going to go back up in november of 2022 a year after the climate emergency was called

00:38:57.680 um they're sending a letter to the federal government saying hey yeah we know about this money could you uh

00:39:03.840 yeah send it our way please so there's that and then just a little something else that i thought people

00:39:11.040 would um be interested in they're looking for money to have the zero uh emissions um charging infrastructure

00:39:21.840 happening um their ambitious strategy aligns with the federal goals to achieve net zero by 2050

00:39:33.120 and they're looking please please would you put in place mandatory retrofit codes by 2029

00:39:41.040 because oh we just want it so much uh and again we know from our plan 2050 plan

00:39:48.640 that this is what they want they want green codes they want them put into place because they want

00:39:53.280 people to have to retrofit their homes because it's going to help uh bring down the greenhouse gas emissions

00:40:00.000 and when they uh go to their you know the big boy club and um they can show that they're reducing

00:40:09.360 their emissions because um everybody's going to have to retrofit their homes so they're asking like

00:40:16.480 please can you make it mandatory so they're working on it my friends they are working on it so there is

00:40:25.440 that whole um document right there and hopefully you could get it all in and take you know a peek at it

00:40:33.520 stop you know rewind sort of thing to see it all there okay my friends boy oh boy i know it's um

00:40:44.240 i'm going to actually go out of this now and it's getting on in time so i'm not sure if i should be

00:40:52.320 including the technology section in here i'm thinking that i'm going to hold off we'll maybe make it a part

00:41:01.040 three it's not very long though so hmm you know what you can stop you can start you can come back at

00:41:10.800 any time right to watch and finish the video let me just grab this for you let's just let me see i am

00:41:18.800 going to pull up which i think i think i did that wrong so

00:41:30.400 i'm gonna have to maybe get rid of that okay there you go so thankfully um a good friend had sent this to me

00:41:40.320 me and so here this is where we can go down the rabbit hole so our dear mr pootmans was sending out

00:41:49.600 his letter newsletter to the ward and you can scroll down you can read and you can read and then we get

00:41:59.920 near the bottom he starts to share about the vehicle noise and enhancing community safety

00:42:10.080 so apparently vehicles are noisy and so they're going to be starting uh you know watching using some

00:42:20.480 technology to listen watch and listen uh to the city and they're using it people to do it uh acoustic

00:42:30.720 monitoring devices are going to be deployed particularly on 17th ab so if you want to know more about this

00:42:40.560 you can go check out the web page so let's just see let's just hope it all works for us here

00:42:45.520 um okay there we go and so interesting notice how smart city comes up when i was researching

00:42:55.840 it's hard to know what year some of this stuff occurs because they're people who can do a lot of

00:43:03.680 behind the scenes maybe could go in the back door somehow and figure out you know when was this made but

00:43:09.520 uh from what i could figure out the living labs uh anything with regard to a lot of the smart city stuff

00:43:17.200 is not real recent and i'll show you that here so i wanted just to share this with you so just doing

00:43:26.080 some clicking around going down the rabbit hole trying to find out about this technology

00:43:30.880 technology the internet of things yep and so we can actually go let me just see yeah we can go i might

00:43:44.720 come back oh yeah here we go here we go there are videos discover the smart city calgary video playlist

00:43:52.400 so i went here

00:43:57.280 and yes so smart city the city of calgary so they're not uh calling themselves smart city we know that

00:44:10.160 but i thought i'd point this out to you because we're all a little hmm what's the word shall we say

00:44:17.200 hesitant when it comes to technology well i thought it might be important for us to realize that this

00:44:26.560 is not new technology and it's been around for a little while here so here's a little playlist of

00:44:34.480 some of the things so there's the acoustic monitoring that he's talking about that we can look but it all

00:44:41.680 uses the same technology so i thought you might be curious to see shaganapi golf course golfing one

00:44:51.280 let's see what they have to say

00:45:01.440 i work with the golf and sport development team at the city of calgary and recreation

00:45:05.760 i am working on the site optimization and pace of play projects for the city of calgary we're doing

00:45:13.920 a pilot project to analyze how fast people come through the golf course and how frequently they

00:45:19.840 stop this is one of our lower end sensors that we're using it's located right underneath the seat of

00:45:25.520 all of the golf carts and we can sense where the golf cart is anywhere within the golf course area

00:45:31.920 and how fast it travels from spot to spot one of the benefits of the technology is helping steer our

00:45:38.640 marshals to the areas on the course where they're needed most in real time if our customers are not

00:45:44.880 in the right area or need some support through one of our marshals we can send one over to help assist them

00:45:52.160 one of the benefits of the technology in the golf carts will be setting up the tee times to be more

00:45:57.280 accurate so there's less waiting at each station or to get going nobody likes to be waiting around

00:46:02.720 at a hole for minutes on end while other people are playing through this will help improve our

00:46:07.440 guest experience through being able to keep the pace of play we can also set our team okay so that

00:46:16.240 technology has been around for quite some time obviously and so interesting isn't it we have to

00:46:24.240 really be careful in terms of technology is really kind of handy isn't it um versus you know maybe

00:46:35.680 it's not such a bad thing maybe yeah it's it can be used for good right so we have to be find that balance

00:46:44.240 but here is the acoustic monitoring let's see if we can get this one today this is what

00:46:51.120 dear mr pootman what's talking about measuring noise is important to everyone's quality of life

00:47:02.880 it's something that's difficult and has been traditionally expensive with laura and laurawan

00:47:08.880 technology we have the ability to cost effectively characterize it and have a better understanding of

00:47:15.280 how it impacts citizens in all kinds of situations and events the acoustic sensor has a capability to

00:47:22.480 characterize noise based on edge analytics we've prototyped this solution and tested it to characterize

00:47:30.480 noise levels for our bylaw partners to be able to understand how concerts and events attenuate within the

00:47:38.400 city environment by proactively understanding how noise propagates given a situation we'll be able

00:47:45.760 to actually reduce the number of complaints and proactively solve the problem before it becomes a

00:47:50.880 problem saving us time and money laura and laurawan is an exciting technology because we have the

00:47:57.920 opportunity to provide data visibility to processes and services that we traditionally haven't we're able to

00:48:06.640 analyze and make our work more efficient and have a better return on investment we believe that it is

00:48:13.600 something that can improve the lives of citizens in the smart city ecosystem

00:48:23.680 okay so there you have it now you can move around you can go and check out

00:48:31.840 in the news for example and i clicked on a lot of these links and then it might take you to

00:48:37.840 uh a website of um some technology company and there it's an article that you can read about the

00:48:45.520 technology for example most of them that i found were 2018 2019 but you yourself can go and you know

00:48:52.720 click around and see uh see what you find there so this technology has been around for a little while

00:49:01.120 and so when it comes to technology um again we need to find a balance between boy that makes life a lot

00:49:08.000 easier handier etc etc versus the uh you know people being monitored um you know against their wishes so

00:49:23.200 those are things um that have been around for a little while and i'm just going to throw this in

00:49:30.000 here for everyone to think about um this is what jan bradley she was um the chief information technology

00:49:39.040 officer actually i think she still is and you know talking about oh it's so great etc right um can solve

00:49:46.960 community problems all these sorts of things which we just heard this individual say in the video

00:49:52.960 but less than lewis who i talked about in video one she said um in order for technology to be smart 0.98

00:50:00.720 it needs data the greater the data collected the greater the risk to privacy so finding that balance

00:50:10.000 between the convenience the handiness of it uh moving um society forward rather than perhaps backwards when

00:50:20.160 we think of authoritarian uh uses for that technology so there we go just a little bit just a little

00:50:29.680 bit on technology but i thought was really important for you to see so in closing just to summarize everything

00:50:35.840 here um because we're pretty much at two hours so thanks for hanging in there thank you if you went out

00:50:41.680 came in stop start that's the great thing about video um know that the city of calgary's 2050 climate plan

00:50:50.320 is most definitely the localization of the united nations social development goals

00:50:57.680 the city of calgary is accountable to the un and its subsidiaries for such things as reporting emissions

00:51:07.200 all planning revolves around emissions reduction activities such as the green city fleet green

00:51:14.480 building requirements the city growing up instead of out right the city of calgary is becoming accountable

00:51:22.640 not to we the people whom they should be but rather to the global cabal uh according to the united nations

00:51:31.360 from what i've read on their websites there is no one blueprint for implementing

00:51:36.320 the 2030 agenda that's why it makes this so very difficult because what the city of calgary is doing

00:51:44.960 may look very different from let's say what airdrie is doing for example um or strathmore down the

00:51:52.800 highway right everybody's interpretation of how to incorporate the sdgs is going to look a little bit different

00:52:00.960 so that's what makes this tricky um also just summarizing that vehicles are considered to be i should put that

00:52:10.640 word in there a massive contributor to the ghg therefore must be minimized and public transportation must be

00:52:18.160 maximized that is their goal cities are a huge contributor to ghg such as the carbon footprint of buildings

00:52:27.760 particularly the cement which is impermeable land degradation via urban sprawl thus the land use

00:52:35.600 bylaw changes city planning goes hand in hand with transportation planning or mobility more people in

00:52:42.480 area equals less driving businesses for example at the base of buildings complete streets which we've seen

00:52:49.280 cities are going up versus out that's the densification my friends the rabbit hole is very very very deep

00:53:03.520 i know i had to just finally say okay no more i have what i have i'm not going to go looking anymore

00:53:10.640 i believe i have enough information these initiatives have been in the work for years and years actually and

00:53:17.680 are everywhere and i made a note here about ducks unlimited story which i'll share

00:53:25.440 this is an authoritarianism disguised as eco-friendly policy without a doubt and i'll close with this story

00:53:37.120 i'm not going to give any names or anything away

00:53:39.600 but this past summer of 2024 i was speaking with a person whose family member works for

00:53:54.400 ducks unlimited in manitoba i pretended that i didn't know too much about ducks unlimited

00:54:04.240 and i asked what do they do actually and she said well they actually go around and they talk to farmers and

00:54:16.560 they ask farmers not to destroy wetlands that may be on their land so that there is environment wetlands

00:54:29.840 environment for ducks uh for example which would be one an example one animal that would be in a wetland

00:54:40.480 and i replied oh well that's interesting so then they pay the farmers then and the reply was yes

00:54:52.800 yes they do and i said oh interesting so that is what they're doing then when they have for example

00:55:01.680 a ducks unlimited supper slash fundraising event so that money would basically raise would go into the

00:55:10.480 the the you know the quote unquote bank to pay farmers for their land and she said said yes

00:55:18.720 yes but there has not been a lot of fundraising lately because there's this thing what's it called like the

00:55:30.880 paris agreement thing the climate thing and the money is just flying in

00:55:38.160 and i just pretended to be surprised i said oh wow interesting and i left it at that so

00:55:52.720 the money is flying in to ducks unlimited in manitoba because of the paris climate agreement

00:56:02.800 so that ducks unlimited can pay farmers to not till under or destroy the wetlands on their farmland

00:56:17.200 and the money is flying in very very interesting isn't it so when i say the initiatives have been in the

00:56:27.600 works for years in the works for years and years and it's deep deep deeply embedded in many and almost all

00:56:35.760 aspects of society it definitely is and i thought that story exemplified it perfectly so my friends thank you

00:56:46.880 so very very much please use this information re-watch it share and use what you've learned to

00:57:02.080 empower you to speak to people who may think that you're wearing a tin hat when really you're not

00:57:09.840 a tin hat thank you so much for your time and your attention we appreciate it so very much god bless you

00:57:17.280 and god bless canada

Action4Canada - December 13, 2024

Eye on Calgary Video 4 - Background to Climate Emergency Declaration

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