Carolyn Bennett at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On February 9th, 2011. See this statement in context.

February 9th, 2011 / 4 p.m.

Liberal

Carolyn Bennett Liberal St. Paul's, ON

I thought there was going to be a release last fall on a digital economy policy for the government. It seems what we've been hearing is that we're just falling farther and farther behind, in that when the U.K. put its data up, it added £8 billion to their economy.

Obviously these are the deux étoiles of the government, and I thank them. I am thrilled at the cottage to be able to go on your website and find out whether I need my boots or not. It's fantastic.

However, what are the laggard departments and what does the government do about the laggard departments? If there's not a policy, how on earth do you encourage the other departments to get going on this?

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