Government Operations committee  We're very similar. In our case we also cannot make our source data directly available as is. So we aggregate our reports, our tables. Data sets are all aggregate data. Regardless, even if it's aggregate, we need to deal with the smaller values to prevent identification of indiv

Government Operations committee  In our experience, open data did help in terms of the efficiency of our work, so we're getting less ATIP, less cost-recovery. Those are helping us save resources and invest those resources in making more data available, not sending out DVDs or mail-outs and whatnot. Having said

Government Operations committee  As I explained, the source data is personal data—

Government Operations committee  Very quickly.... The way we experienced this question in CIC is that we have the internal momentum driven by efficiency searches, trying to serve our clients better, and whatnot...and also driven by Government of Canada commitments, open government. However, having said that, we

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  For us, we started publishing quarterly data before the open data came into being. Then when the open data became available as another venue, the current 37 tables that we have there, they are on open data. Five of them are also published on CIC's website. The same information is

Government Operations committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to present Citizenship and Immigration Canada's (CIC) participation in the open data portal. As many of you might know already, CIC's data differ somewhat from much of the other data available on the Government