Statistics Canada will make all electronic publications (PDF and HTML) available for
free as of April 24, 2006. Paper publications will still be sold and any electronic publications (CD-ROM etc) requiring manual intervention. Databases such as CANSIM and datasets will continue to be priced. "
The adoption of the New Publishing Model supports the longstanding principles underlying the Agency's dissemination program: to make information of broad public interest widely available to the Canadian public ..."