As an informal advisor to Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada, I was invited to comment on the Library and Archives o Canada's recent draft Canadian Digital information Strategy (see http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cdis/012033-1050.51-e.html). Why is it that such documents are so sterile and predictable? Ian launched this exercise as a way to promote the digitization and online access to all of Canada's publications, which was a truly radical idea floated in his MW2005 keynote in Vancouver (http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/papers/wilson/wilson.html). But the requirements of involving all the stakeholders, holding extensive public reviews, and turning it over to senior bureaucrats from the LAC, has given birth to an anodyne prescription for public policy where what is needed is strong action, now.