Sure. Whenever you're going to spend time trying to agree on language issues for metadata and standards in terms of formats, it's tedious work and it's long and involved. The benefits though, I think, are huge, and they're huge for a very long period of time. I think it would make Canada unique in the world if we had, among our various levels of government, a common set of metadata terms so that people, if they wanted environment data from any level of government, could actually find the environment data they were looking for from any level of government. If we had a single search engine to tie that all together, we would be unique in the world.
On April 29th, 2014. See this statement in context.