That is good question. This is something I spoke about in 2009 before this committee, believe it or not, when we first started to discuss open government. What I had researched at the time was based on what was going on in other jurisdictions, such as in the U.S. and the UK and Australia, which were at the forefront of open government. They talked about high-value data sets and high-value sets of information.
Each federal institution has its own stakeholders. Everyone has stakeholders that have a specific interest in some information in that institution. My office is a good example. We're a small office. We have a limited mandate, but we kept having requests for information for the data on our complaint investigations statistics. We can only publish this data once a year in our annual report, but we produced the data on complaint investigations internally for my own benefit on a need-to-know basis. We started disclosing the data proactively on a monthly basis because we had a demand for it.
Each institution should deal with its own stakeholders and see what information is of value to stakeholders, because its not going to be the same for all government information for all government institutions. We have obligations for official languages and for accessibility when we publish something proactively. It's onerous for federal institutions. It costs money to proactively publish something. We have to choose, and we have to choose that with our stakeholders and with Canadians.