Government Operations committee  We're very similar. In our case we also cannot make our source data directly available as is. So we aggregate our reports, our tables. Data sets are all aggregate data. Regardless, even if it's aggregate, we need to deal with the smaller values to prevent identification of individuals, so we sometimes group smaller values.

Government Operations committee  In our experience, open data did help in terms of the efficiency of our work, so we're getting less ATIP, less cost-recovery. Those are helping us save resources and invest those resources in making more data available, not sending out DVDs or mail-outs and whatnot. Having said that, we don't experience any pressing challenges on the resources, but if one had more resources, one always asks if one could do more.

Government Operations committee  As I explained, the source data is personal data—

Government Operations committee  Very quickly.... The way we experienced this question in CIC is that we have the internal momentum driven by efficiency searches, trying to serve our clients better, and whatnot...and also driven by Government of Canada commitments, open government. However, having said that, we also do benefit and we do appreciate the Treasury Board guidance, in terms of policy expectations, format, consistencies that aren't technical consistencies, and their support in terms of guiding us towards perhaps more preferred or more popular data requests.

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  For us, we started publishing quarterly data before the open data came into being. Then when the open data became available as another venue, the current 37 tables that we have there, they are on open data. Five of them are also published on CIC's website. The same information is published at about the same time, and we don't see any problem or any conflict between those two venues at the same time.

Government Operations committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to present Citizenship and Immigration Canada's (CIC) participation in the open data portal. As many of you might know already, CIC's data differ somewhat from much of the other data available on the Government of Canada's open data portal, due to the nature of our work.