Certainly it's a really good point. One of the witnesses, David Eaves, I think, talked pretty significantly about this when he was here.
It's important to be able to associate the benefits of open data far beyond just what the economic impact might be in the first place, the social impact specifically.
One of the most popular data sets currently that we make available has to do with new arrivals to Canada. Municipalities require this data in order to develop their own settlement services and provide supports locally. If they had to figure out how to develop that data themselves, they wouldn't have it in time to have supports available to those newcomers.
In other areas, I think that oftentimes the data is being provided in a non-formatted version so that it can be reused for many different things; it doesn't come with a preconceived notion of what the user is trying to get out of it. I think one data set could support the development of multiple uses, as opposed to the single use that we originally developed the data for. We have to be careful about making sure that when we make the data available, we don't preconfigure it to look like what we planned on using it for in the first place.
In terms of making it easier for individuals or intermediaries to use that data, to factor that data into other data that we don't have and don't own in order to be able to provide new services, especially services which are research oriented, social benefit oriented, logistical analysis oriented, these are things that go far beyond just the capacity to drive economic value.