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Tracey P. Lauriault

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Folks!

Does anyone know what TB plans on doing about cost recovery and access to Canadian data?

Here is a question I sent them today:

Earlier I sent a question about access to StatCan data and was advised that I should ask StatCan. However, this open data initiative is at the Treasury Board, and it is TB that decides how to fund government, and it is TB that is underfunding StatCan which in turn has to sell its data. So my question is for you at TB, will TB be reconsidering cost recovery policies, funding StatCan properly so that it does not have to sell its data, and make our data publicly accessible? I would not want to have StatCan data opened up and TB not refund its lost revenue as we will simply see more surveys cut over and above what we have already lost. Is revising the cost recovery of data part of the open data project?

I will let you know if I get a response. I would recommend that many other also ask that question!

Here is the contact us page: http://www.data.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=A0653291-1
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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
http://traceyplauriault.ca/

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