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I did something similar on a much smaller scale for census, bea etc (only the DB part).

Here in the US, federal gov data (census, bea, bls etc) can be used in commercial products as far as I know. Might be the same in Canada, worth looking into?

Great idea

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Yeah, I don't recall where I saw something that suggested fair use. https://lop.parl.ca/ImportantNotices-e.html#Copyrights doesn't speak directly to that issue, but it's probably easier to just cite my sources and not bother with the revenue side of things. It's more important to me that this data be freely and easily available than it is for me to turn any kind of meagre profit.

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