Government Operations committee  It's a very good question. The solution to that is already in the works by several ministries. Again, I go back to Stats Canada. I think geography is one of your solutions. When we as a municipality want to better understand the clients who we serve, one way of doing that is to

Government Operations committee  That's a great question. I totally agree that too much data is confusing. The real solution to that is not counting, and that's why it's not good as a metric to say your measure of outcome is x number of data sets released. That's not the right metric of outcomes for an open d

Government Operations committee  Given that our major role is to identify in a better way the clients we serve, we need that profile data, that socio-economic data. If you're asking about what data we need from the federal departments, I could give you a list right now, as follows. We are in very short supply

Government Operations committee  Yes, basically the issue that we have in quality of data.... Ron is completely correct. There is no perfect data. I think that the solution here is to provide equal resources and opportunities to support federal departments in explaining their data, providing a proper metadata ba

Government Operations committee  In my opinion, there are two types of standards. There's a technical standard, and then there's a policy standard. Technical standards deal with different formats of data, whether they're mapping-format data sets or Excel or that type of thing. I think those are probably less of

Government Operations committee  Open data is not open government. These are terms that should not be used interchangeably. Maybe the best way to answer your question is to give an example. When we provide a data set through the City of Toronto's open data site.... Let's use a federal source. We just put some

Government Operations committee  First of all, I want to congratulate the government. I agree with Don. It's small steps. It's great to have a data portal, but you asked me whether it's relevant, useful. So here goes. I'll give you a candid answer. When I was looking through CivicAccess, an online user group of

Government Operations committee  Good morning, everyone, and thank you for having me. If I could just ask you to talk to Environment Canada to change the weather out there, I'd appreciate that. That's my first ask. I'd like to break down my comments into two main sections. First is a little bit about the his