They are using it. It was used for a massive Globe and Mail investigation. It has been used to expose other fraudulent misuse of the charitable tax system. It has been used for published purposes. It has been used to bring evidence before this very committee. Obviously, it was being used.
It would have taken you and your agency more effort and resources to take it down than to leave it up. You haven't given a single justification for why you expended time and resources to proactively send your people into your Internet system to take that data down so that it's no longer available to Canadians.
Again, what harm was done, other than embarrassment for the government, by leaving that information online so anyone could access it without your permission?