diff --git a/bin/canada.py b/bin/canada.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..031102d8441
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/canada.py
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+'''
+Script to sort out the tags imported from ca.ckan.net to thedatahub.org and
+got mangled in the process.
+'''
+
+import re
+from optparse import OptionParser
+import copy
+
+import ckanclient
+from status import Status
+
+def sort_out_tags(source_ckan_uri,
+                  dest_ckan_uri, dest_api_key,
+                  ):
+    ckan1 = ckanclient.CkanClient(base_location=source_ckan_uri)
+    ckan2 = ckanclient.CkanClient(base_location=dest_ckan_uri,
+                                  api_key=dest_api_key)
+
+    # ensure group exists
+    group = 'country-ca'
+    assert group in set(ckan2.group_register_get())
+    group_to_change = 'canadagov'
+
+    # work out tag mappings
+    tag_status = Status('tag mapping')
+    tag_replace_map = {}
+    source_tags = ckan1.tag_register_get()
+    for tag in source_tags:
+        mangled_tag = re.sub('[-._]', '', tag)
+        replacement_tag = tag
+        # Change underscores to hyphens
+        replacement_tag = replacement_tag.replace('_', '-')
+        # Remove trailing punctuation
+        if replacement_tag[-1] in '_-.':
+            replacement_tag = replacement_tag[:-1]
+        if replacement_tag[0] in '_-.':
+            replacement_tag = replacement_tag[1:]
+        if mangled_tag == replacement_tag:
+            tag_status.record('Unchanged', mangled_tag, do_print=False)
+            continue
+        if mangled_tag in tag_replace_map and tag_replace_map[mangled_tag] != replacement_tag:
+            print 'Warning - can\'t differentiate %s : %s / %s' % \
+                  (mangled_tag, tag_replace_map[mangled_tag], replacement_tag)
+        tag_status.record('Mapping added', '%s:%s' % (mangled_tag, replacement_tag), do_print=False)
+        tag_replace_map[mangled_tag] = replacement_tag
+    example_map = tag_replace_map.items()[0]
+    print tag_status
+
+    # Custom mappings
+    tag_replace_map['metaimportedfromcackannet'] = 'meta.imported-from-ca-ckan-net'
+
+    # edit packages
+    pkg_status = Status('Packages')
+    pkgs = ckan2.group_entity_get(group)['packages']
+    print 'Packages in the group: %i' % len(pkgs)
+    for pkg_name in pkgs:
+        pkg = ckan2.package_entity_get(pkg_name)
+        original_pkg = copy.deepcopy(pkg)
+
+        # Change tags
+        edited_tags = [tag_replace_map.get(tag, tag) for tag in pkg['tags']]
+        if 'canada' in edited_tags:
+            edited_tags.remove('canada')
+
+        if group_to_change in pkg['groups']:
+            pkg['groups'].remove(group_to_change)
+            edited_tags.append('canada-gov')
+
+        if set(pkg['tags']) != set(edited_tags):
+            pkg['tags'] = edited_tags
+            print '%s: %r -> %r' % (pkg_name, sorted(original_pkg['tags']), sorted(edited_tags))
+
+        if pkg == original_pkg:
+            pkg_status.record('Unchanged', pkg_name)
+            continue
+
+        try:
+            ckan2.package_entity_put(pkg)
+        except ckanclient.CkanApiError, e:
+            pkg_status.record('Error: %r' % e.args, pkg_name)
+            continue
+        
+        pkg_status.record('Successfully changed', pkg_name)
+
+    print pkg_status
+
+usage = '''%prog [OPTIONS] <source_ckan_api_uri> <destination_ckan_api_uri>
+Recopy tags that got mangled in Canadian copy.'''
+parser = OptionParser(usage=usage)
+parser.add_option("-k", "--destination-ckan-api-key", dest="destination_ckan_api_key",
+                  help="Destination CKAN's API key", metavar="API-KEY")
+
+(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
+
+assert len(args) == 2, 'The source and destination CKAN API URIs are the only two arguments. Found: %r' % args
+source_ckan_uri, destination_ckan_uri = args
+print 'Key: ', options.destination_ckan_api_key
+
+sort_out_tags(source_ckan_uri,
+              destination_ckan_uri,
+              options.destination_ckan_api_key,
+)
diff --git a/bin/status.py b/bin/status.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..575bd9c906e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/status.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+from collections import defaultdict
+
+class Status:
+    '''When looping through objects and doing operations to them,
+    this is a useful object to keep track of what happens and
+    summarise the numbers at the end.'''
+    def __init__(self, obj_type_str=None):
+        self.obj_type_str = obj_type_str
+        self.pkg_status = defaultdict(list) # reason: [pkgs]
+        
+    def record(self, status_category, pkg_name, do_print=True):
+        self.pkg_status[status_category].append(pkg_name)
+        if do_print:
+            print '%s: %s' % (pkg_name, status_category)
+        
+    def __str__(self):
+        status = '\nStatus'
+        if self.obj_type_str:
+            status += ' of: %s' % self.obj_type_str
+        status += '\n'
+        status += '\n'.join([ \
+            '%s: %i (e.g. %s)' % (category, len(pkg_names), sorted(pkg_names)[0]) \
+            for (category, pkg_names) in self.pkg_status.items()])
+        status += '\nTotal: %i\n' % sum([len(pkg_names) for pkg_names in self.pkg_status.values()])
+        return status
+