1996-05-04|Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
01 | Title
Canadian Housing Information Centre Products
A Proposal
02 | Description
I was struck by a totally unexpected catastrophe (basement flood due to defective drain tile) 1996-04-08. Water was leaking into the basement at the rate of more than 1 000 litres per day for 2 weeks.
A couple of weeks later, I noticed an article in the Ottawa Citizen on basement problems. One of the references cited in the article was a booklet entitled Cleaning Up Your House After a Flood. I rushed to the CMHC Library and purchased the booklet. I was lucky to live very close the CMHC headquarters. For the vast majority of Canadian residents, however, it would take a week or so to obtain the information by mail, by which time it would have been too late because a speedy action is essential for a cleanup.
I visited your very well-done web site at <http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/cmhc.html>. I think the next step is to populate the site with valuable CMHC publications such as Cleaning Up Your House After a Flood. HyperInfo Canada Inc. specialises in Internet World-Wide Web application development. It recently released an on-line scientific textbook called The Living Atom Theory (ISBN 0-929105-10-9) <http://WWW.HyperInfo.CA/LivingAtom/> as a showcase of HyperInfo Knowledge Power Centre. It uses First Virtual™ Internet Payment System for secure electronic commerce (the credit card information is NEVER sent over the Internet).
I wonder if CMHC would consider such a publication scheme. If you are interested, I would be willing to prepare a digitised hypertext version of Cleaning Up Your House After a Flood and place it on my web site for demonstration.
Thank you very much for your attention, and I trust that this message will be forwarded to the proper authority.
