Ms. Teresa Scassa at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On February 14th, 2017. See this statement in context.

February 14th, 2017 / 12:55 p.m.

Canada Research Chair in Information Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual

There are very significant standards issues. There are very significant issues around the security of the data infrastructure. There are really important issues around ownership, which I mentioned in my comments. If the foresight and the planning is not there, municipalities or governments end up not owning the data related to their assets, and then find themselves having to pay over and over again to use it in different ways.

I think the public policy around data is a tremendously important piece.

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