Imagine a country...
* where every citizen has the opportunity to access its online
cumulative cultural heritage.
* which is able to harness the will and energy of every library,
archive, gallery, museum, historical society or institute of record to
create a comprehensive collection of digital resources for the benefit
of its citizens.
* committed to eliminating barriers of access, not only physical
but geographical.
* where urban and rural areas are as one, and where the official
motto "A Mari usque ad Mare" (from sea to sea) represents a statement
of purpose and not simply of space.
* capable of exploiting proven and emerging technologies to bring
its past forward to the present, to make the far away nearer, and to
make the inaccessible accessible.
Canada is such a country.