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🇨🇦 Posts claim urban planning reforms in Edmonton, Alberta will lock down residents in their neighborhoods. This is false -- the plans aim to improve public transport between districts and do not propose restricting movement

"Once they start digitizing things and once you have a registered digital ID, the reason that they are starting these smart cities is for a carbon footprint on each individual," a speaker says in the January 29 clip."So you won't be able to drive and if you do you're going to max out your carbon footprint, so you won't be able to eat beef if you've driven too far.

But the reforms are not linked to the province-wide service -- and the application does not collect carbon emissions data."Information about users and their online activity is never stored or tracked," said Melissa Crane, Alberta's press secretary for technology and innovation, in a February 8 email." does not collect carbon-footprint information and is not related to the City of Edmonton's district planning.

Kuiper of the Edmonton city government said the 15-minute plan's goal is to create"a more connected, prosperous, healthy and climate resilient city." "It is not about restricting movement, monitoring people or tracking an individual's carbon emissions," she said.

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