Frank, Good point, it was a quick copy-paste job, and I didn't realize how much the subject read like a political PR blurb. I guess that I was just excited that this has finally arrived!
I agree that it's the result of effort on the part of many folks. I suspect that the movement started shortly after the conservatives got the boot; when I was still living in Canada (back in the '90's) I remember a lot of the academics and civil servants that I met were advocating for this. My favourite example of how crazy cost-recovery was is how Parks Canada had to pay Natural Resources Canada to get topographic data on federal park lands...and how it was too cost-prohibitive for them to do so in many cases. The KPMG report that came out a while back with some solid ammunition on how cost-recovery wasn't effective seemed to be the tipping point, but it's taken a while for the data silos to open up this much. Now that the data will be readily available, I wonder what the quality will be like. cheers, Greg
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