Information & Ethics committee  I'd just like to echo the same comments. It's been a pleasure to appear here and to demonstrate some of the great work that public servants have been doing on behalf of citizens. Thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  Let me just perhaps expand on that. At Environment Canada all the information is made available to citizens in the language of their choice. A lot of the data is behind what I'd call API, which I think you've heard before: the application programming interface. There would be a s

Information & Ethics committee  Perhaps, Mr. Chairman, I will give a historical perspective on where we are in Environment Canada. Technologically, people set up these accesses to scientific data on their own portals. They ran them themselves, across the department, in a very siloed manner. As the chief inf

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. I am the assistant deputy minister of the chief information officer branch of Environment Canada. As a chief information officer, I am responsible for the management of our computer infrastructure, including such produc