Mr. Chair, my motion reads as follows:
That, in relation to Corinne Charette's (Chief Information Officer -Treasury Board Secretariat) appearance on February 9, 2011, at which she committed to providing the Committee, within 1 month, the Treasury Board's 5-point plan on open government/open data, a detailed summary on what has been accomplished to date and their of plan of action going forward in the coming months, and since this deadline of March 9, 2011, was not met, the Treasury Board Secretariat and Ms. Corinne Charette be ordered to provide these documents to the Committee, in both official languages, not later than Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 3:00 p.m.
My motion has to do with the appearance of Ms. Charette, a public servant and the Chief Information Officer at Treasury Board Secretariat, before the committee. At that time, I asked her for the government's action plan on access to information and open data, and for information on what had been accomplished and what the government planned to do in the future. Today, Stockwell Day introduced a pilot project on open data focusing on three areas: open data, accessible information and open dialogue to drive economic opportunities. We are very grateful for Mr. Day's efforts. We are also grateful for the work done by the committee, whose repeated demands were so well-received that he wasted no time in bringing his project to us. However, it is still just a pilot project, which in itself does not discharge Ms. Charette of her duty to provide the information we asked her for. It is now March 21, and she was supposed to provide it by March 9. Ms. Charette should have to submit the documents in question to the committee by 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, as per my motion.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.