Government Operations committee  That's a great question. I want to return to this. That is, when we think about the role that dialogue plays in this, and I guess that's what I keep returning to, we do have some emerging models. The example that I gave of the geomatics round table is a really good one because w

Government Operations committee  First of all let me just say this. I don't think I said we will be making better decisions; I think I said I hope we will. I actually agree with what you said. I think we can become overwhelmed by information and data, and that would be a bad thing. Part of what I wanted to em

Government Operations committee  I'd like to make a couple of brief comments on “open by default”, which of course is the name of our report, and we had a lot of discussion around that concept or principle. First of all, to go back to your question about whether more open data would reduce the request for open

Government Operations committee  As somebody who's not part of a government, I would just to defer to my colleagues here. They would have a much more direct view on this than I would.

Government Operations committee  I think it's a great question. I might come at it a little differently. First of all, let me just say this. At least in the short-to-medium term I'm probably maybe a bit like you—I hope I'm not reading this into you—I'm a little skeptical about the likelihood that ordinary Canad

Government Operations committee  Great. Thank you very much. Merci beaucoup. First of all, let me thank you for the opportunity to come to speak to you today about some of the work I have been involved in. I guess the reason I'm here, as Ron McKerlie has already said, is that I was the chair of the Ontario gove