Like my colleague from Vancouver, I can tell you that the information is very important to us, but I cannot tell you how much we are paying for it.
That being said, when we put the motion for open data in front of the IT subcommittee for a vote, one of the questions we got was whether we were going to sell this data. The concept of open data is to make the information freely available. Conceptually, there was an issue about why we should pay twice for the same thing, what the reason would be for doing so.
I used to joke with some of the elected officials that this will foster economic development, and all of us pay taxes, so sooner or later we are going to get the revenue anyway. I think it is better to make the information readily available free of charge and foster economic development.
The point we made also with some of the elected officials is that the process we would have to put in place to monitor who is downloading it and whether they have paid us and everything else would be more costly than the revenue we would get from selling it in the first place. So just make the information readily available—