There was talk in the GOSLING mailing list about the so-called "Data Liberation Initiative (DLI)" from Statistics Canada. It provides universities and colleges with a special case for freely available information from Statistics Canada.
For the record, I am entirely opposed to DLI for the same reason I am opposed to the various institutional exceptions to copyright being proposed by CMEC and Access Copyright. Schools are the LAST places in our society that should have rules that are different than the rest of society. This is where many students learn what is acceptable and what is not in a safe environment before they go out into the "real world". To have data that is accessible only as a special exception, or have the ability to do things which will infringe copyright once you leave the institution, should never be allowed to happen. To do otherwise is anti-education, not education.
School Libraries should have to acquire information in the same way that a public library would, allowing students to access information in the identical way they will from public libraries when they are no longer institutionalized.