Check out civicaccess.ca.

From the website:
Welcome to Citizens for Open Access to Civic Information and Data, a group of citizens which believes all levels of government should make civic information and data accessible at no cost in open formats to their citizens. We believe this is necessary to allow citizens to fully participate in the democractic process of an “information society.”

They have a mailing list - I’ve joined!

Thanks to Peter Suber on Open Access News for the tip.