Mr. Chair, I would like to thank the member for his question.
Closing the Mont-Joli library was part of a change in the business model for managing our collections and our libraries. In reality, 96% of research by library users is done electronically. We are investing significantly in digitizing our collections.
The Mont-Joli library, similar to our libraries elsewhere in the country, has always been bilingual. Most of the collections were in English. However, we had collections in English and French. We wanted to transform how we provide information to our users by making it more modern.