Information & Ethics committee  I will transmit the information to the committee at that time, Mr. Chair. Personally, I have no problem with this.

Information & Ethics committee  One thing I think would be a good example, Mr. Chairman, is the way the Americans did it. They had a consultation online with their citizens when they were putting in place the open government strategy. We'll look to our colleagues to give us some insight in terms of how they did

Information & Ethics committee  The access requests that are received and the ones that are completed, one or the other, can be disclosed. In terms of the actual bulk of the documents, we have to consider the implications for official languages. Would there be a requirement that all of this documentation need

Information & Ethics committee  That's a very valid question. There has to be a cost-benefit analysis to this. The only data I've seen is as part of the Australian task force work, which has looked at the cost and benefits of disclosing the information. The Americans will tell you that they think it leads to

Information & Ethics committee  These are two different things. Should the government disclose everything all the time? I don't think it would be a good cost-benefit exercise, plus it would be an overload of information. Part of the way the other jurisdictions are developing this is that they're consulting the

Information & Ethics committee  No. I'm not sure I understand your question, actually. I'm sorry.

Information & Ethics committee  We'd have to consider the implications for official languages, in terms of whether or not that could be done.

Information & Ethics committee  For instance, there's the disclosure of statistical data free of charge, the disclosure of geospatial data, the disclosure of weather data, the disclosure of immigration data. This can be disclosed proactively. There's the disclosure of access to information requests that are com

Information & Ethics committee  Do you mean the CAIRS website? It's no longer available. The secretariat decided to no longer ask institutions to input into the CAIRS system, and that's what led to complaints to my office and led to the investigation. I've provided you with a detailed account of the investigati

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, I must admit I have not looked at the comparison between the long-form census and the national household survey. I suggest that would be a question perhaps best asked of people who work at Statistics Canada rather than me. I certainly have not looked at that carefully.

Information & Ethics committee  As I said, if you look at the Americans, they had very, very tight timelines, and they've put data out. There were some mistakes and they had to fix them. That was their approach to it, and they're very candid about it. That was the way they wanted to go about doing it. The Austr

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not sure how to answer that question, Mr. Chairman. I'm not the right person to ask whether we should go slowly in anything. It's not in my grain. That being said, there needs to be reflection, that's for sure, and experts need to be consulted. If you look at the Australians

Information & Ethics committee  It's a complex question, Mr. Chairman, in terms of the funding because we've received quite significant additional funding in the last three years and I fully recognize that we are now fully staffed, essentially, give or take a few. We have some work to do in terms of efficiencie

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chairman, I think I have to correct something. Perhaps I wasn't clear. There are four out of 250 that I know of that are disclosing their completed information requests. In terms of the other data sets that are available, NRCan is producing quite a lot of very valuable data.

Information & Ethics committee  I think you would have to speak to the office of the chief information officer, because they're the people who now, in my view, are most active. On the list of witnesses, we've also suggested that you might want to hear from people at NRCan who are doing it and are producing ve