We're not talking about a scarce resource. The only scarcity we have with respect to it is an artificial scarcity that's been established essentially by government in not making it available. The fact that others may have access to this information doesn't mean that Canadians don't and can't try to compete in terms of making it available. I would argue that Canadian citizens are the ultimate beneficiary, regardless of who ultimately takes this information and adds sufficient value to give some real benefits to it.
If a foreign company comes in and finds ways to add value to Canadian data so that Canadians know more about their environmental conditions, their communities, or whatever the issue happens to be, there's still a benefit to Canada. Some of the economic benefits may accrue to a company that has come in and provided that, but that's what competition is all about. In some ways, not making this available has hamstrung the ability of Canadian businesses to actively engage at home in this area and to compete in some of the bigger markets. Canada is a small market in terms of these data. The real value would come through building some Canadian companies and letting them compete in a market with 10 times the population and presumably 10 times the amount of data.