Hi all,
I met with Mark Levene (Mark is acting director open government policy at TBS) and one of his colleagues from TBS today and I received some news on the OGP process moving forward.
1. The government is currently in phase three of the consultations and will be working with departments to post new commitments in the ‘suggested ideas’ section of data.gc.ca
2. The suggested ideas section recently posted on data.gc.ca constitutes the consultation on the ‘draft’ action plan.
3. When the government publicizes the action plan, they will also make public a document that provides details about why the ‘ideas’ posted during the ‘ideas dialogue were included in the final action plan or were not included in the final action plan.
In the meeting I impressed upon Mark and his colleague that the ‘suggested ideas’ section posted on data.gc.ca does NOT constitute a consultation on a draft action plan. The ‘suggested ideas’ are brief, vague and include no real commitments. I made it clear that this would be a major issue for Canadian CSOs and that they should consider a consultation on the draft text of the action plan. I also raised the previous IRM and stated that this would definitely be raised again the subsequent IRM.
I am only one voice in this process and I think it might be useful if others emailed [hidden email], with a cc’ to [hidden email] and [hidden email] and expressed their desire to provide feedback on the ‘draft action plan’ ie. not a few short ideas with ‘possible’ actions. We could also coordinate a bunch of tweets at the TBS secretariat calling on them to publish the draft action plan.
I do think that some coordinated messaging might be helpful.
Cheers,
Claire
Claire Woodside
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