- Ronald C. McMahon of the Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics published a
paper in 1995 on
Cost Recovery and Statistics Canada which recommends:
... that Statistics Canada discontinue the practise of cost recovery for goods and services that have been generated in the pursuit of its taxpayer funded activities and move to a system of charges based on transfer costs. ...
Furthermore, it is recommended that Statistics Canada provide access to its major data bases such as CANSIM via the Internet or other access modes without charge. This approach will facilitate the democratization of data and should lead to a more informed and enlightened public most of whom provide data free of charge to Statistics Canada many times during their lives.
- Andrew Hubbertz of the University of Saskatchewan Libraries submitted
these:
- Government Information in Canada is an electronic journal that he has been editing since 1994.
- "Nurturing the Global Information Commons: Public Access, Public Infrastructure," by William J. Andrews, West Coast Environmental Law Research.
- "Cost Recovery and Statistics Canada" by Ronald C. McMahon, Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics. (Remember, Census and other Statistics Canada data is geospatial.)
- Andrew Hubbertz of the University of Saskatchewan Libraries submitted
these:
- Government Information in Canada is an electronic journal that he has been editing since 1994.
- "Nurturing the Global Information Commons: Public Access, Public Infrastructure," by William J. Andrews, West Coast Environmental Law Research.
- "Cost Recovery and Statistics Canada" by Ronald C. McMahon, Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics. (Remember, Census and other Statistics Canada data is geospatial.)
- A couple of years ago, he wrote a
brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Environment,
arguing against cost-recovery for meteorological data from Atmospheric
Environment Service. The issue was later picked up by the Canadian
Library Association and presented in a CLA brief.
The CLA brief could probably be produced also. - He has addressed the issue of cost-recovery in various places, including: http://library.usask.ca/~hubbertz/eip96.html. In this, and in his brief, he refers to information obtained under the Access to Information Act summarizing the revenues collected from sales of digital data.
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