Thank you. It's great to have these witnesses before us. For full disclosure, as I mentioned in the last meeting, I come from this background of citizen science. In fact, I worked for 13 years or so with Cornell on eBird. I was in charge of managing it in Canada. With Geoff in Audubon I was managing the Christmas bird count in Canada for a long time—I forget exactly how long. It's great to have you all here to talk about the importance of citizen science and its successes that we talked about.
I can assure Monsieur Blanchette-Joncas that everything Birds Canada and Québec Oiseaux do is in both official languages. Those groups, which are Cornell's partners, do get money from the federal Government of Canada. That's one of the requirements, and we're happy to do that. We have to do that when we're dealing with citizen science and have to communicate properly with citizens.
I just want to touch on one thing. We've heard a lot in this and in other studies this committee has undertaken about the concept of open data, and how many of the big projects of all sorts around the world in science are moving to an open-science, open-data concept.
Perhaps I can ask all three witnesses this question: What is your policy regarding the data you produce?
Maybe I'll start with Mr. Wood and then move on.