Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My questions are mainly for Mr. Eaves or Ms. Miller.
As you know, our study is about improving the government's open data practices. More specifically, we want to look into how Canadian companies can have better access to high-value information with strong economic potential. So this study is part of an economic perspective. We are trying to find out how all this can be used within an economic vision.
Mr. Eaves, earlier, you talked about cross-sectional data—environmental data on the caribou and on logging potential. That was very interesting. One of our recent witnesses asked questions about that.
Earlier, for fun, I used my iPad to research something as simple as taxes. We are currently in the midst of the tax season. The search engine ranked Government of Canada data 13th, and Revenu Québec data 4th.
A Treasury Board representative was saying that, in terms of open data, Canada was doing fine and was well-positioned compared with other G8 countries. Yet I remain skeptical.
How can we increase data accessibility and people's interest? Why would people go on the Canadian government's website data.gc.ca, instead of using a search tool? How can we position ourselves to ensure that our data is used regularly? We will have very detailed big data, mainly with regard to universities, and research and development. How can Canada become a world leader? We are being told this is already the case, but is it really?