We're not studying or preoccupied with what Canadians would do or how they might use data sets that we would render accessible in machine-usable format from this portal.
There certainly is no end to the imagination and the creativity of programmers. They can take either geospatial information, statistical information--any kind of information--and come up with a good idea, as they've done. They've proven at the municipal level in Canada, and they've proven in the U.K. and the U.S., that there are a lot of interesting and good ideas out there.
We're not concerned about how people will use data. We're concerned about making sure that we can promote data with integrity; that the data that we put out can be correctly interpreted by people of both official languages; that in doing so we are not going to be, for instance, introducing any security issues into our government cyberframework; that we are respecting accessibility, which is an important requirement for government websites; and that we are doing it at a pace and in a way that departments can continue to fulfill going forward. We don't want to be in a position of publishing a portal with a certain inventory of data sets on one day and then having to perhaps take them down because we can't refresh them or because the costs of refreshment are too onerous, and so on.
We're not really preoccupied with how the data might be used. I don't think that NRCan or Environment Canada spends a great deal of time worrying about that. It's really about ensuring that if we make an open data portal available, it will be compliant with our legislation as well as one we can stand behind and one of enduring value.