This is public information, these are public documents, and should be accessible to the public like any other public document held by the government. IF there is to be a nominal charge, it should be purely to cover costs (and once it’s on the web, there are not a lot of costs to cover), although history has proven that access to earlier census information is free of charge. The very idea that Canada;s history can be put up for sale is the stuff of the worst kind of crass monetization of our past. It needs to be open to the public, FROM the government. I shall be writing to as many MPs as I can in hope of getting this absolutely bone-brained idea reversed. What will be sold next? Access to the Peace Tower? Sheesh!