Trudeau government asks for ideas on open government

Where do I begin?:

The Liberal government is asking Canadians for their ideas on making government more open.

Treasury Board President Scott Brison announced the national consultation today.

Brison says the transparency bus has left the station.

The minister says he believes that an open government is a more effective government.

Beginning today, people can go to open.canada.ca to offer their views on what should be in the next federal strategy on open government.

Officials will also hold in-person discussions across the country and the resulting plan is to be released this summer.

• The hardest issue of all: changing the culture and enforcing a default obligation of openness;
• Provide information in electronic formats that allow manipulation for analytical purposes. The previous government only released public opinion research data tables in pdf format, rather than in spreadsheets. More recently, PCO was unable (or unwilling) to export its database of GiC appointments in spreadsheet format, requiring me to recreate this already public information;
• Expanded data sets, issued regularly in a timely fashion. My initial list, starting with citizenship:
  • in addition to top 10 (consider top 25)  countries of birth, have complete table or one mapped to IRCC operational regions (top 10 only covers about 50 percent of new citizens)
  • naturalization rate after 6 years of permanent residency, broken down country of birth mapped to IRCC operational regions
  • naturalization rate after 6 years of permanent residency by immigration category, gender and province
  • citizenship test pass (language and knowledge) results by country of birth mapped to IRC operational regions
  For passports, numbers related to:
  • top 25 countries of birth (all)
  • top 25 countries of birth (foreign-born)
  • number of passports issued abroad mapped to IRC operational region (to give sense of Canadian expatriates)
  • breakdown by country of birth of passports issued abroad

  Appointments: regular employment equity type reporting for all GiC appointments.

Source: Trudeau government asks for ideas on open government – Macleans.ca