We're always trying to put more into the public domain at a cheaper price. In fact we've made great efforts in the last little while to increase our access-free data to the public. All our PDF and HTML documents, for example, are all available free of charge. There are parts of the website where you have to pay and you have to download, and that's a uniquely Statistics Canada thing. Other statistical agencies don't have that, where some of the data are available for free.
There's a long history. Statistics Canada's funding was cut many years ago, and we were told at the time to make up for it by collecting user fees. Making all data available for free would mean a big cut in revenue to the agency, and that's why there's still some data not available. But as I said, we're doing our best within the limits that we've got to make more data available for free.
Every single publication that comes Statistics Canada is now available on the website free of charge.
