Is there not a discrepancy between the statement in the G8's Charter on open data, that is that there be transparency by providing free and universal access to data, and the fact that there is “a certain degree of control over information”? I am putting those words in quotation marks because I do not want to target any one individual.
The minister said earlier that it was not necessary to know those people for information to be in the portal. I am hoping he was joking.