Natural Resources committee  I'm just the humble ADM of their science sector.

Natural Resources committee  I can't give you an informed response on that. I don't know.

Natural Resources committee  In this we also have presentations that we've made. Often they'll give a presentation at a conference before the final release of the data, so here's the information we're gathering, our inference, hypotheses, etc.

Natural Resources committee  The only seismic work that was being conducted this summer in the Arctic that had anything to do with the federal system, whether it's our group or any other federal department, was the UNCLOS program, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Louis S. St-Laurent,

Natural Resources committee  I would imagine as long as it takes, if the rules are they have to be a kilometre away. I don't know.

Natural Resources committee  So do I.

Natural Resources committee  First of all, let's look at it as an annual expenditure over the five years. Our projected budget for 2008-09 was around $11 million. We ramped up in 2009-10 to $26.5 million. In 2010-11, it was $20 million. This fiscal year it's projected to be $17 million and then $17 million i

Natural Resources committee  Yes. If we turn to the annex, appendix 1, I gave you three examples of projects where we released the open data files, which include chemistry information, traditional sorts of geomapping, bedrock geology, and include surficial geology. Those three, collectively, are about 114 op

Natural Resources committee  I'll start. It's an excellent question. In the examples we gave we tried to highlight the fact that there had not been exploration in these areas. We obviously felt there was sufficient information on these three examples where the risk was less risky. Industry then went in and

Natural Resources committee  Yes, it's specific to the map. I'll turn it over to John, who's the right person for the colour coding.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am neither a geologist nor a specialist in the field, but fortunately, I am accompanied today by three geology experts. Allow me to make a presentation before the question period. I'll go to page 2, a very brief history. The Geological Survey of Canada

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the opportunity to be here. It's a pleasure sharing our experience with the committee.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll start. Natural Resources Canada provides the geospatial metadata we've been talking about. That's the data about the data we have and the documentation relative to it in both official languages, compliant with the Treasury Board guidelines and policy. Natural Resources Cana

Information & Ethics committee  I'll let Prashant answer that one. Thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll start off and then I'll let my expert to speak to this. The two examples you gave are applications of open data. They are applications or end uses of it. You're seeing a tool that's using open data that someone has acquired when you use your GPS system, for example. The dat