Mr. Chair, from my perspective I would say that the options are not mutually exclusive. We, as an agency, have a duty to support the principles of open data in our ongoing publishing activities, but there is obviously value in a pan-governmental approach in which there is a certain coordination, where certain directives are in place. It holds us accountable and it allows a common approach. The end user of data may be using Statistics Canada data one day and data from Health Canada or Transport on another day, so obviously some consistency, from my perspective, is a good idea.
On May 15th, 2014. See this statement in context.