My unambiguous answer to the question in the headline is "yes", especially when the question is as put by Clint Lalonde, where the proposal is for "a publically-funded (important imo) national MOOC provider in Canada, say in the form of an inter-provincial institutional consortium." Now this is different from the proposal earlier this year from Alex Usher for a centralized course collection; this would be an infrastructure development, and could be used in different ways by different individuals or institutions. To the article I added a short comment explaining (from my perspective) exactly why we didn't get a Canadian MOOC in the 2010s. I would add that the problem today is that such a platform would pose competition for commercial education platform companies, something the government has been loathe to create. But hey, should the funding ever materialize, I'm in. I know we could do better than what's out there.
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