Government Operations committee  The information in the database is actuals, as reported in public accounts or in quarterly financial reports.

Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  That's correct. I can show you very briefly. If you pick Finance Canada, for instance, there is a button on the Finance Canada overview page in the details entitled “open data link”. If you click on this open data link, it will take you to a web page on the Treasury Board websi

Government Operations committee  The expenditure database did not require any procurement costs. We bought no special software or hardware to create this expenditure database. We used one of my analysts—a good chunk of his time—programming in JavaScript, to create what is essentially a very fancy web page tied t

Government Operations committee  At this point we have been getting a split of approximately half and half between government and public hits on the expenditure database.

Government Operations committee  At this point we are looking at about 1,000 hits per month in this early stage of the expenditure database.

Government Operations committee  We did consider what information we would need to provide to help the average Canadian or the average user navigate through the information. For the initial installment of the expenditure database, we have taken the approach of providing quick instructions on this landing page. S

Government Operations committee  Good afternoon everyone. Thank you for having invited us today. It is my pleasure to tell you about our database. The expenditure database was released in April. I'm just going to do a quick demonstration of the features that are available within the database and describe the i