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federal government: Any of those projects could get a little bit easier after Tuesday's launch of the federal government's revamped data.gc.ca portal , according to CBC. Tracey Lauriault, a post-doctoral fellow at the geomatics and cartographic research centre at Carleton University in Ottawa and co-author of a blog on Canadian data issues, says the federal government "has not been too bad" when it comes to open data and Maybe you need some demographic information before you start a small business. Or maybe you have to finish a high school project on Canadian immigration trends. Or perhaps you want to make a map showing pollution across the country. Treasury Board President Tony Clement touted the revamped site, calling it Canada's "new natural resource." But that new window into federal data tables, statistics and other information available online is getting mixed early reviews and arrives at the same time as the government faces controversy over just how open it actually is. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.