Thank you, Mr. Calandra.
I have a question for you, Madame Charette. We've been at this for about four or five weeks. We've looked at other provinces and at some of the cities, but we've also looked at what's going on internationally in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They've made a lot of strides on this issue. It seems to have been driven from the top. When David Cameron came to power, he made the statement that “We're going to do it”, and when Obama came to power, he made the same statement: “We're going to do it”. Within 30 days, they had a sizable number of databases on their websites. Within two years they had over 200,000 databases, all in a reusable format, within this principle.
I've listened to your testimonies and I'm not even clear if we have a policy on open government, or open data, as it's called. Do we or do we not? Are you getting any direction from your superiors, whether it's your deputy minister or the President of Treasury Board, that this is something we should be doing?