Mr. Stephen Burt (Chief Data Officer and Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy and Performance Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat) at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

I would simply point out that a culture of openness is directly tied to the need to protect what needs to be protected—personal information. Not everything can be disclosed. We always work with the intention of disclosing as much information as possible and making data available, but we have to protect personal information. As for secret information, like cabinet confidence documents, there needs to be some flexibility to have the discussions required for the running of the government.