Abstract
This paper presents an overview of the course of twentieth-century Canadian universality in social, telecommunications, broadcasting, and public library policies as a broader and more realistic context for the development of information infrastructure policy. Recent market-oriented policy proposals do not consider the object lessons learned from market failures in the first half of this century that resulted in demands for a more secure, equitable, and inclusive society. The recent drive to deregulate has spurred public advocates to fight for government intervention to preserve universality in policy decisions for the Canadian information infrastructure. This study concludes that the private and government sectors are eroding universal access in favour of competition. Past and present policy examples indicate that universality will not occur without government intervention.
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