Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, guests, for being here today.
You mentioned some examples of the kinds of customers for open data. You talked about a couple of municipal examples, such as transit and traffic.
I'm trying to think of customers of federal government data. We think of fishers and farmers and miners who have dealings with Fisheries and Oceans Canada or Agriculture Canada or Natural Resources Canada. Based on your discussions you've had with different players in the Canadian economy, who expresses the greatest need for more government data?
I'll give you an example. You talked about productivity. If you're a fisher and you require some historical map information from way back in the 20th century, you'd go to one of these libraries and put in a request. You'd lose a day of fishing to get there, and you'd get a paper map. Today they want that instantly, and they want it online, and they want it accessible from a boat via satellite.
There are benefits in government operations; it's more efficient and so on. But there are also huge benefits for the customers.
Who are the customers out there that are asking for federal government data?