The Canada memory fund was an incentive program, in the sense that its intention was to incent other federal departments to digitize crown collections where they were custodians of a crown collection that would be important to future generations of Canadians. Incentive money was given, say to the National Film Board, and last week or the week before the National Film Board announced that 900 titles have now been digitized and they are now online. Funds were also provided to Library and Archives Canada to digitize their collection and get more and more of it online.
It was always intended to be a program with a beginning, a middle, and an end. You started it up. You invested the money. You ensured that the institutions of government had the proper equipment to start digitizing their collections, and over time the intention was--and it worked out--that they would integrate that into their ongoing business planning. Now the National Film Board, as part of its integrated business planning, has the digitization of the collection. The same with LAC, and with other institutions across the country.