Thank you. This is a very important question.
Thank you for reminding me of day one. It was a great day in my life, and I'm really humbled by the appointment and the responsibility, and the expectations of the country.
My approach is that by default scientific data should be available to the public. That being said, just making it available to the public is not the end of the story. We talked about science literacy, and the public needs to be able to access it in a user-friendly manner and make sense of it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is it's easier said than done, but we will get to it. Already there is a lot of accessible data, but again it's a matter of really making sure that.... Data storage and access is a very complicated thing.
As I mentioned, I have already asked the various departments about their practices to try to see if we can develop some shared best practices and other issues. Data storage, again, was huge for me at the University of Ottawa. It's huge for all universities. That's something I'm looking forward to working on with the entire community.