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The Canada Gazette
continues to evolve
Opportunities to optimize emerging technology continue to push the Canada
Gazette toward a new edge in electronic communications and e-democracy.
The Directorate aspires to give official status to the PDF Internet version
and publish the printed copy of the Canada Gazette simultaneously
with the official on-line version. One day, citizens wishing to send their
comments to a responsible department on proposed regulations might be
able to do so through a direct hyperlink function from within the proposed
regulations in the Canada Gazette. Currently, interested persons
wanting to comment are invited to do so by sending their comments directly
to the appropriate departmental contact person named in the notice.
A more advanced search engine on the Canada Gazette Web site would greatly
improve the search capabilities. In addition, the Directorate will monitor
advances in adaptive technologies and work with the disability community
and experts in the field of assistive devices and information technology
to include the tables, graphics, equations and chemical formulae (which
are presently removed because they cannot be converted) to the alternate
format.
These changes continue to broaden the spectrum of government communications
in an increasingly sophisticated world, where access to Government is
available at the touch of a button.
Some advances have more to do with a little ingenuity than with complex
technology. A distribution box, similar to those used for daily newspapers,
is located at a convenient bus stop on Parliament Hill. This innovation
makes the Canada Gazette as available to passers-by as any other
newspaper.
Canada continues to evolve as a nation respected around the world. With
the rapid pace of technological innovation, advances in the fields of
medicine, and lessons learned daily about our earth, the history books
studied by schoolchildren will someday chronicle the present day as a
time of growth and change. There is certain assurance that the Canada
Gazette will have played an important role.
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