Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The Depository Services Program needs your help!

(April 23, 2002)

The DSP has been requested to provide free copies to the public of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and its guide. A new edition of the guide to the charter will be released around April 17th. Communication Canada would like the DSP network to make free copies of Guide and Charter available to any person entering a depository library. We would like depositories to display the posters and distribute the publications to those who request it. The DSP will supply to each depository, at the DSP’s expense, 50 copies of the guide and charter as well as English and French promotional posters. By assisting the Program meet this need there is no direct cost to the depositories.

In supporting the Charter of Rights and guide initiative, the DSP not only hopes to remind everyone of the enhanced accessibility depositories bring to Canadian Government publications, but also to promote greater awareness of the wealth of Canadian government information accessible through “Canada @ your library”. By participating in Canadians’ access to the guide and charter initiative, depository institutions will be reinforcing to Communication Canada the important role they play locally, and the access they have to a significant body of users of Government of Canada information. They will also be capitalizing on a unique opportunity to remind citizens through this Communication Canada initiative that in their depository libraries Canadians have, for free, a rich pool of Government of Canada publications and information.

The initiative has the support of the Library Advisory Committee of the DSP.

Thank you in advance.

Éric Tremblay
Coordonnateur de projet / Project Coordinator
PSD / DSP
Communication Canada
613-943-5410
mailto:eric.tremblay@communication.gc.ca