In this regard, the Government of Canada is no different from our society as a whole. Throughout the world, the sheer amount of information generated each year is growing exponentially. Part of it is due to the ease with which we can create information. When it's easy to get and store at a relatively low cost, people tend to do more of it. Even in the electronic age, we're seeing that more information is being published each year than ever before. So the government is only a small part of a broad trend.
On November 24th, 2009. See this statement in context.