End Notes for Section Two


  1. (Interestingly, 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, p. 19.20

  4. Jeffrey Frank, Access to Technology in Canada, Canadian Social Trends, p. 7

  5. A.W. Bates, Technology, Open Learning and Distance Education, Rutledge, 1995. p. 89

  6. Access, Affordability and Universal Service on the Canadian Information Highway:, report prepared for IHAC, 1994.

  7. Ibid, p. 8

  8. Interestingly, SaskTel and Manitoba Tel were the only telephone companies operated as provincial government crown corporations, which may call 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, Nov, 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. A provincial initiative to provide greater access to learning for residents of northern Ontario

  12. US Universities announce birth of new baby, Internet II, Robert Everett Green, 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 the effectiveness through national and global connections.

  14. Education Quarterly Review, Statistics Canada, Vol. 3, # 3, p, 18

  15. Access, Affordability and Universal Service on the Canadian Information Highway, p. 10

  16. Final Report, Information Highway Advisory Committee, p. 63

  17. Jeffrey Frank, Canadian Social Trends, Autumn 1995


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