In terms of the Creative Commons licence, this would be a government-wide project. Each department is responsible and knows what information holdings they have within their own databases or data sets, so in order to offer a Creative Commons type of licence, there would have to be a get-together of the minds of all the various departments to agree on the wording. The Creative Commons licence can involve full universal access for just about everything that anybody can think about, including adaptation, reproduction, translation, and so on. If we're going to the Creative Commons route, we would have to define what that licence would mean for us in the Government of Canada. We're not the policy-makers, so this would have to be discussed with Treasury Board.
On February 28th, 2011. See this statement in context.