The Donner Prize recognizes books on public policy by Canadian authors. The Globe asked this year’s shortlisted authors choose one person in a position to influence public policy they’d most like to read their work
My hope is that all big city mayors in Canada read, and spend some time pondering how these technologies could help or harm their communities. My research showed that municipal governments were often at the front lines of the smart city revolution, and so these institutions are tasked with determining how new, powerful and largely unproven technologies will impact residents, public spaces, the built environment and so on.
I would like Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, to read my book. My preference for starting there builds on a core principle of continuous improvement: Start with something significant but manageable to achieve an early win, and then build momentum from there. My many years in Ottawa have taught me that good ideas too often founder, either because they are politically challenging to deliver or because they elicit opposition from the provinces.
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