They might not make it publicly available (or, if they do, they might charge for it), though. For example, the last time I looked into it (which was about 10-12 years ago, admittedly), Canadian DEM files were freely available at a certain horizontal resolution (maybe 50m?), but you had to pay if you wanted, say, 10m resolution data.

I fed the data for Whistler into an OpenGL demo app I found; it looked pretty cool. This was before Google Earth, btw.