Copyright-Free Material Edging Out Canadian Educational Texts

Are Canadian students being forced to learn from foreign textbooks?

That's the concern of John Degen, executive director of the Writers' Union of Canada.

"I hear again and again from professors and from teachers saying that they simply don't feel they have access to enough Canadian works right now," he told CBC News.

"And they have to go elsewhere. Their institutions are insisting that they use only free material, and a lot of free material is coming from outside of Canada."