Government Operations committee  Good morning, gentlemen. I've been listening to your briefings, and the basic message I'm getting is that it's not so much the public that is involved in this, it's more like information nerds, or whatever you want to call them, people who are specialized in these areas and can

Government Operations committee  Mr. Giggey.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Low.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I would ask that we go in camera if we're talking about motions. They should be in camera.

Government Operations committee  Good morning, gentlemen. One of the things we wonder about is whether the federal government is in line with other countries or not, whether they're producing enough data. We have a statistic here that says 193,000 data sets are on the open data portal of the Government of Canad

Government Operations committee  Minister, we've heard from different people about how wonderful this system is, and how we're going to save billions and trillions of dollars. I have to tell you, I'm very skeptical. I understand the value of the information itself. Providing people with information is good, but

Government Operations committee  Okay. I'll move to a different topic. We've been listening to various experts come and tell us about open data, and basically, most of them are what I would call nerds. They live in that world of coding and research, etc. We really want this material to get to the public, and I

Government Operations committee  I know your department is enthusiastic about this open data, but are other departments as enthusiastic as you are?

Government Operations committee  Good morning. I just want to talk about the different levels of government. There are the federal, the provincial, and the city governments and each of them have their responsibilities. I'm wondering if there are any jurisdictional issues to be resolved or any impediments in inf

Government Operations committee  Mr. Hume.

Government Operations committee  Okay. Ms. Nadeau, my understanding is that New Brunswick does not have an open data site, per se. Are you planning to do such a thing in the future?

Government Operations committee  Are all the various departments within British Columbia feeding information into your data site? Or are there some that are not?

Government Operations committee  Ms. Francoli, I have just a quick question. The Treasury Board claims they have more than 190,000 data sets published, and then I see city and province representatives come here with different numbers. Is there any sense between these numbers? Do they mean the same thing? Are t

Government Operations committee  Thanks. Mr. Fortin, we've been briefed from a number of people, and basically the same message keeps coming out that experts are who you're dealing with. Experts go to all the databases. They withdraw the information, manipulate it, etc. But I believe that our purpose should

Government Operations committee  It says here that Atomic Energy is going to get $195 million to meet their commitment to provide medical isotopes to, probably, an organization like Nordion. But Nordion pays for this, and I don't know if there are other customers, but they pay for it too. This $195 million is no