Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for taking the time to provide us with your expertise and knowledge. We particularly value the fact that we can get international participation in our own thoughts and deliberations.
One question I would have is surrounding the notion of behavioural modification within government institutions related to open data. It's a relatively known phenomenon that when circumstances change, legislation is passed, it requires more open.... Whatever may be the driving force, institutions will indeed to change and adapt to the evolving circumstance. With open data, is there a potential...?
There's an obvious potential for governments to modify their behaviour to allow the increased outflow of information, but there's also the potential that governments may retract. Knowing that there is a driving force, an impetus to collect data and to disseminate it, there may be a driving force to stop collecting it so that they do not have to disseminate it.
In any of your experiences—I'll start with Mr. Stirling and then lead to Ms. Da Sylva, and Ms. Bates—if you could then comment relatively briefly, do you have any experience that you could relate to that particular instance or example?