Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
Thanks, Commissioner, for being with us once again. It's always a pleasure. Certainly this is a topic we're all extremely interested in. I think there's a huge commitment, certainly on the government side, to have open and accessible government. We're interested in seeing how we can do that.
I was interested in your response to Mr. Siksay. The first question I was going to ask you was to explain the difference for us, once again, between open government and proactive disclosure. As you know, we've gone back and forth on this committee renaming our study. Right now we're talking about open government, when we started out talking about proactive disclosures. So I was interested to hear your response to him.
In your opening remarks you said that the chief information officer presented a five-point plan on open data that includes a prototype for a government portal from which raw data can be searched and extracted for re-use. Then when you were talking to Mr. Siksay you elaborated on that a little more and talked about data that could be reformatted and manipulated.
What protects the integrity of that data if it can be reformatted and manipulated? I don't understand how its integrity is protected and why we would want to put data out there that people can manipulate to show different things that perhaps would not be anywhere near what the data are portraying.