Government Operations committee  I think Mr. Byrne had a comment.

Government Operations committee  I know nothing.

Government Operations committee  No, I'm not debating this. I'm just bringing up a point that I was here at all the meetings. We never actually eliminated the planning subcommittee. We just talked it through. We never voted on it, etc. I don't mind, but we never actually eliminated the planning subcommittee.

Government Operations committee  Now I'll comment on this. I read the notice, and my challenge is, what is the actual topic? If we're going to proceed with this, we need somebody or some bodies to come in here and tell us what it is they want to deal with, because I don't think we can deal with security. I don'

Government Operations committee  We can't travel. I know that.

Government Operations committee  I just want to be clear. We're not putting a time limit on the study. You're just talking about getting it launched. Is that right?

Government Operations committee  Just to get the thing launched.

Government Operations committee  My problem is with the words “climate change”. I don't know what those words mean because they're a buzz term, “climate change”. If we're talking about what is our preparedness for natural disasters, that's one thing, but on climate change, if you want to talk about the climate,

Government Operations committee  If I may, I'll go into my fundamental problem. My fundamental problem is that what we're talking about essentially is weather, not climate. Climate is a trend over a long term. Right now, you may not notice it, but we have the polar vortex out there. We have snowstorms everywhere

Government Operations committee  I want to go back to Mr. Martin. First of all, there have been no sea level increases. You'll have to tell me where they are because it hasn't happened. Hurricanes are not occurring at the same rate they used to be. Hurricanes have been quiet for years. You have to go looking ar

Government Operations committee  I was just going to say that, like Mr. Martin, I worry about precedents. If you start giving out these things, you get to a stage where you can't say no any more and you could be into problems. I'm just one of those who believe that if you have to come here to ask for it, you'r

Government Operations committee  You're using the term “metadata”, and I wonder if you can give an example or two of metadata.

Government Operations committee  I'm not going to divert you into another topic, but there have been issues recently with CSE collecting metadata. What you're describing, basically, are all the details related to a certain subject area? Is that right? Metadata is basically the whole picture—everything.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. I know these sites are called open data and they're open sites. However, I think also about the security side. Are these sites protected in some security way from hacking? You can have a hacker get in there—we have histories of it—and provide a whole bunch o

Government Operations committee  My other question is about Crown corporations. Are Crown corporations involved in this activity? If they aren't, why aren't they?