Fwd: Recensement : coalition québécoise

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

FYI

Pier-Andre as been great at giving datalibre.ca webspace on his site
for me to load documents I have received during the course of this
Census issue.  Further, he was instrumental at hosting a demonstration
on the hill about the Census!  He has also been great at bridging info
between franco and anglo media and translating content back and forth.

Chers
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Pier-Andre Bouchard St-Amant <[hidden email]>
Date: 2010/9/30
Subject: Recensement : coalition québécoise
To: Pier-Andre Bouchard St-Amant <[hidden email]>


Bonjour à tous (english below),

un bref courriel pour attirer votre attention vers la Coalition
québécoise pour le maintien du recensement long. Leur site web est
accessible ici : http://coalition.cieq.ca/
Du nom de la coalition, je présume que c'est ouvert à n'importe quel
groupe de la société civile qui veut adhérer.
En espérant que l'opposition fédéral vote une loi et non une motion,
Pier-André Bouchard
Hello everyone,
 A short email to let you know that a coalition from groups in Québec
came to life in the past weeks. You can reach them by their website at
http://coalition.cieq.ca/
By the name of the coalition, I assume it is open to every group in
Québec who wants the LF census back.
I hope opposition parties enact a law and quit building political
capital on the back of science,
Pier-André Bouchard
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Pier-André Bouchard St-Amant
Étudiant au PhD en économie
Teaching fellow
Queen's University
Bur. :  613-533-6000 #78335
Cell.  : 514-515-9778
www.pabsta.qc.ca






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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805

[olicharb]

Hi everyone,

I remember someone (Jennifer maybe?) asking about the "Quebec Model" with
regards to access to gvmt docs/data. Sorry I've been very silent but things
are hectic on my side: baby on the way, a "new" old house in the 'burbs,
and well, work, you know...

Anywho, the quick version is that the government printer Les Publications
du Québec is mandated by regulation to assess the market potential of any
copyrighted work owned by the government BEFORE anything is done with it.
The reference to the regulation is:
Gestion des droits d'auteur - Ministères et Organismes:
http://www.droitauteur.gouv.qc.ca/ministeres.php
Normes en matière de droit d'auteur:
http://www.droitauteur.gouv.qc.ca/images/normesauteur.pdf
(that last link is the regulation)

What you need to read is Article 16 on page 5. In that sense, that's where
Les Publications du Québec gets a general oversight over all unpublished
works from the government.

Of course, this model is an implementation of the neoliberal economics
approach to government assets whereby the state must monetize what it owns
and produces. Never mind the positive effects of open access... It was also
established just as the Internet was gaining speed. I'd say that's the
starting point to get OA on Quebec docs/data. Either change the regulation,
or get the provincial printer to change its policies...

Also, I don't know how this relates to the proactive dissemination
(diffusion proactive) on the Internet enacted last year by the Commission
d'accès à l'information for some government reports (see the DIFFUSION link
on http://www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/ - en Français seulement).

Voilà! I hope this helps ;-)

Olivier

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