Fundamentally, under the scenario where a file is destroyed, there has already been an assessment that it has no business value, and in that context, it's not free to digitize records and it could be quite expensive. So effectively, the crown would be incurring a cost on an on-going basis to undertake the digitization and then the perpetual storing of files for which there is no business value.
I note as well that there were discussions with INTA on the question of how long records should be maintained. Until very recently, they had been contending that these should be kept on a perpetual basis, that there should be no point at which records should be destroyed.
This section is limited to what are considered dead files. This would be, for example, a trademark application that's been filed and then never proceeds past the examiner, so it never becomes a trademark. It would include trademarks that are not renewed, so the individual rights holder who has taken the step to seek the trademark reduction has now determined that there is no value from the trademark, so they're not renewing the file. It is truly information that has no business value.