Government Operations Committee on May 5th, 2014

Evidence of meeting #23 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was departments.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Study on the Government's Open Data Practices

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Corinne Charette Chief Information Officer of the Government of Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat

Gordon O'Connor Carleton—Mississippi Mills, CPC

Stephen Walker Senior Director, Information Management Strategies, Chief Information Officer Branch, Treasury Board Secretariat

Dave Adamson Deputy Chief Information Officer, Treasury Board Secretariat

Sylvain Latour Director, Open Government Secretariat, Treasury Board Secretariat

5:10 p.m.

Senior Director, Information Management Strategies, Chief Information Officer Branch, Treasury Board Secretariat

Stephen Walker

If we're talking about the federal public service...because I think, too, that when the point was originally made by the witness, he meant the public service in general. Certainly for federal data, provincial and municipal employees are a gigantic number of users for us. I think federally some of the more generic, underlying foundational data sets like census data or geospatial data are really of more significant use to multiple departments, because they can be used to augment the information they already have in many different ways.

5:10 p.m.

Conservative

Jay Aspin Conservative Nipissing—Timiskaming, ON

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

5:10 p.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Pierre-Luc Dusseault

Thank you, Mr. Aspin.

That ends our testimony for today's meeting. I would like to thank the witnesses again for coming today. I know that their expertise will help the committee members with this study.

I am now going to suspend the meeting for a few minutes, and then the committee will continue its business.

5:10 p.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Pierre-Luc Dusseault

Order please. We will continue our meeting starting with the agenda. We have a notice of motion from Mr. Trottier.

5:10 p.m.

Conservative

Bernard Trottier Conservative Etobicoke—Lakeshore, ON

I'd like us to go in camera. I just want to talk about the study and some witnesses.

5:10 p.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Pierre-Luc Dusseault

Mr. Trottier has moved that we go in camera.

The motion is not debatable.

Mr. Byrne, did you have a question?

5:10 p.m.

Liberal

Gerry Byrne Liberal Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte, NL

Before we go in camera, could the motion be read?

5:10 p.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Pierre-Luc Dusseault

Mr. Trottier has not tabled his motion yet, but he has moved that the committee go in camera.

I am now going to ask for a vote on the motion moving that the committee continue its business in camera. I am going to ask the committee members if they would like us to proceed in that fashion.

5:10 p.m.

Liberal

Gerry Byrne Liberal Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte, NL

Could we have a recorded vote, Mr. Chair?

5:10 p.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Pierre-Luc Dusseault

A recorded vote has not been requested, however if you are requesting it, we can do that.

I apologize, but I am being told that it is too late for a recorded vote because the vote by a show of hands has already begun.

(Motion agreed to)

We will now suspend the meeting for a few minutes in order to give the technician time to make the necessary changes for us to sit in camera.

[Proceedings continue in camera]