--but I can say what the outcomes should be.
You asked what Canada's current level was. There are some departments at the federal level, namely NRCan, which I mentioned, who are doing excellent work, but they're the exception right now. Internationally, in comparison with many of its peers, Canada does not have a federal open-data effort; it does not have any sort of federal open government effort. Those peers, which Chris mentioned, are governments like the U.S., U.K., Australia, and New Zealand. Those are the biggest names.
The advantage of so many of these other countries having spearheaded efforts in this area in recent years, though, is that there's now a surplus of models. I mentioned Australia's Government 2.0 task force, and their report is great reading. I really recommend that you take a look at it. It's online. It really lays out a lot of the approaches to open government in clear language and with a lot of recommendations.
The way those efforts have proceeded—and I'm focusing a little bit on the relatively technical open-data aspects of this—is that they have generally included a statement from the highest level of government that departments should identify the high-level data sets they have and start releasing them; and there's generally been a central coordinating agency that establishes practices for doing that, and sets licensing conditions. That's the way in which most of the models have proceeded.