Endnotes to Section Two

1. Each of these expectations has been challenged recently. Reports on Canada Post argue it is not economically rational to provide first class postal service anywhere in Canada for the same cost; CRTC regulations now support cost recovery on separate elements of telephone service (a process termed unbundling of rates), and toll roads are becoming a more popular way of covering highway costs.
   
   
2. Speech on the occasion of the opening of Victoria College, Cobourg, later Victoria University, part of the University of Toronto.
   
   
3. Josée Normand, "Education of Women in Canada," Canadian Social Trends, pp.19-20.
   
   
4. Jeffrey Frank, "Access to Technology in Canada," Canadian Social Trends, Autumn 1995, p.7.
   
   
5. A.W. Bates, Technology, Open Learning and Distance Education, Routledge, 1995, p.89.
   
   
6. IHAC, Access, Affordability and Universal Service on the Canadian Information Highway, 1994.
   
   
7. Ibid, p.8.
   
   
8. SaskTel and Manitoba Tel have been operated as provincial government crown corporations, which calls into question the oft-repeated dictum that the private sector is better equipped to provide services on a businesslike basis. Manitoba Tel was privatized in late 1996.
   
   
9. BC Tel website, November 1996.
   
   
10. Ross Paul, "Access and Equal Opportunities; Strategies to Realize our Pious Aspirations (A Canadian Perspective)," proceedings of The Student, the Community and the Curriculum: International Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning, sponsored by UK Open University East Anglia and Empire State College, Sept. 1991, p.213, 215.
    
    
11. Contact North is a provincial initiative to provide greater access to learning for residents of northern Ontario.
    
    
12. Robert Everett Green, "US Universities announce birth of new baby, Internet II," Globe and Mail, Oct. 17,1996.
    
    
13. Heather Gordon and Lynn Hauska, Sunshine Coast Women's Centre Online, Women Space, April, 1996 and Women Space is a Canadian-based virtual network that aims to promote accessibility to the Internet, its tools, information and resources, to enhance effectiveness through national and global connections.
    
    
14. IHAC, Access, Affordability and Universal Service on the Canadian Information Highway, p.10.
    
    
15. IHAC, Final Report, p.63.
    
    
16. Jeffrey Frank, 1995.