Scott Simms at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On December 4th, 2014. See this statement in context.

December 4th, 2014 / 3:55 p.m.

Liberal

Scott Simms Liberal Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor, NL

It's wonderful to be here.

Thanks, brother Chair.

I wanted to just talk about the concept of something I like to call “open by default”. I guess when it comes to open by default, there comes a time when you have to update the technology to make it far more efficient. I remember calling into PCO for some information, and PCO telling me there was no machine-readable.... It was not possible to do, for whatever reason. But if you open this up, you modernize it, and it becomes far more adapted to the technology we have today, will that average cost go down considerably?

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