Information & Ethics committee  If the question is about how David Eaves makes his money, David Eaves makes his money through a combination of negotiation and consulting. I advise Fortune 500 companies and some other groups. I advise them—

Information & Ethics committee  —and I do a lot of public speaking. But one of the things is do I hope there are going to be companies that are going to emerge out of this space? Absolutely. Am I someone who would think about launching such a company? If the right opportunity came up, I definitely would, so I wouldn't want to be seen as totally impartial.

Information & Ethics committee  Just to show you how significant the issue of data is, whether it's from government or anywhere, two or three weeks ago I was at LinkedIn in San Francisco, at their head offices, for a presentation. This guy from LinkedIn had this great chart and showed the number of people who had analytics in their job title, graphed over time.

Information & Ethics committee  But I think we have a shared interest, in that I want documents to be available in both languages. Most importantly, I want documents to be available in at least one language, and if a document is only available in French, I want to know, because then at least I can ask to translate it.

Information & Ethics committee  I think this will become a reality in the very near future.

Information & Ethics committee  Mostly I try to find places where I think there is an opportunity to make significant leaps in the way we engage in solving a problem--usually one that has a kind of public policy angle--and I try to write, think, and wherever possible act in order to do that. For example, even here in the open data space, people on the committee may not know, but along with some colleagues I created the data portal for the Canadian government.

Information & Ethics committee  What I would love to see is this group model itself a little bit after the Australian task force to make similar recommendations. Then I would love to see the government look at those recommendations and figure out how to fit them into their agenda. I think there is an enormous opportunity.

Information & Ethics committee  You wanted to talk about bilingualism...

Information & Ethics committee  I'm going to speak in English, just because when it comes to Google stuff, I really want to make sure that I get it right.

Information & Ethics committee  The article you are referring to is an article I was very despondent to read. An RCMP detachment in British Columbia was forced to pull down I think it was 2,000 old press releases, because they weren't available in both official languages. They had previously been using Google Translate to translate the English releases into French.

Information & Ethics committee  It seems to be too complicated for me.

Information & Ethics committee  My apologies. I am not very tech-savvy, as you can see.

Information & Ethics committee  I can understand you, but it's very difficult, as the volume is not high enough.

Information & Ethics committee  No—

Information & Ethics committee  I will try to answer you in French, but I will switch to English if I want to explain more complicated matters better.