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Aaron Wherry covers all the goings-on in and around Parliament Hill. Follow Aaron on Twitter: @aaronwherry

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The information era (II)

by Aaron Wherry on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:36pm - 5 Comments

Glen Pearson pitches the religion of open data.

Each political party must now ask itself what it must do in order to renew not only Parliament but itself in the process. While progressive governments around the world have deployed digital technology to advance transparency and unshackle information to fuel knowledge and innovation, Canada has been held in check by the most secretive government in its history. It remains to be seen whether the technological revolution that is succeeding in renewing government representation throughout the Middle East and Africa will actually unfold in Canada, where research announced yesterday stated that we spend more time on the Internet than any other nation.

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  • OriginalEmily1

    Canada needs a Julian Assange, a Bradley Manning….to throw it wide open.

  • Thwim

    Has Pearson thought that perhaps the reason we spend more time on the internet than anybody else is *because* it's so damned hard to get good information out of our gov't?

  • Dave

    Abolish crown copyright.

  • http://www.jeffbursey.com Jeff Bursey

    "Each political party must now ask itself what it must do in order to renew not only Parliament but itself in the process."

    It's not much of an advantage, or a guarantee, to leave it up to the parties. We, the citizens (and I mean voters and those who don't vote), are the Parliament, and have a civic responsibility to contribute to this as well. Some people may be part of a party's membership, and they can exercise their opinions that way; but every Canadian is a participant in the House of Commons, at least in theory, and can work on changing it, whether or not they be a member or supporter of a party.

    Jeff Bursey
    author of _Verbatim: A Novel_,
    a parliamentary satire

  • http://secondthots.blogspot.com Dennis_F

    Nothing from Wherry on Trudeau's idiotic comments on honour killings.

    Nothing from Wherry on Iggy's clueless comments about funding a Quebec arena.

    I mean, why dare say a word against his favourite party, right?

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