Ontario has also supported extensive infrastructural work. Nineteen umbrella organizations (anglophone, francophone and native coalitions, and sixteen regional or metropolitan networks) are funded. There is a Provincial Literacy and Language Training Resource Centre, Alpha Ontario, containing both reference and teaching materials in English and French, accessed through the public library network. There are computer networks in French and English. Special interest groups have been formed on a number of issues, including rural literacy,¹⁰⁷ family literacy, practitioner training,¹⁰⁸ program-based research, oral history,¹⁰⁹ and literacy for social change.

In 1991, the Ontario government initiated a "policy and evaluation project" that is aimed, after significant program expansion and in a period of "restraint and consolidation," to develop an overall framework of policy, evaluation and accountability.¹¹⁰ Initial documents for the project speak of integrating literacy into a lifelong learning system, and promoting not only equity of access but also equity of outcome. Attention is recommended to variations in individual learning style, recognition of achievement previous to study, integration of supports for study, and integration of transitions between literacy programs and between them and other education and training. A broad consultation process is underway that aims at the development of a policy statement, including a definition of literacy, and principles, objectives and strategies, by the fall of 1992.¹¹¹ A second stage will develop guidelines for quality in programming and instruction. A final stage will develop evaluation guidelines; completion is planned for 1993.