Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
To the witnesses, thanks very much for being with us this afternoon and giving us the information on what actually is happening in government. I think we were all under some misunderstanding about what is being done, so it will be good to have an outline and to see where you're going.
Although we've not talked to anybody who is doing anything on a national scale at this point, we hope to. We have talked to municipalities and to the Province of Ontario, and I think they all said that the consultation process of getting the public involved and knowing what they want to be able to access was the most important thing. I also agree with the statements made earlier that totally different kinds of data are being collected at the municipal and the federal levels.
However, all of them indicated that there are some easy things to start with. Maybe that's where we are now; I'm not sure. It seems to me that we've got mapping and some other data that are very readily available and maybe easy to put on, and we don't need to worry about translation for most of these things.
Can you comment on that? First of all, how do you think the public will be consulted as we continue with this process? Are we picking the low-hanging fruit and getting started that way, which is what everybody to this point has recommended is a good way to get going?
As well, as you continue forward in your process and your planning, do you have consultations back and forth with the U.K., for example, or Australia, which have done things on a national level?