Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Both presentations have been fascinating.
Mr. Caron, I was very interested in what you mentioned about the digitizing project with the Inuit. I'm a big believer in digital archives. I worked with the Algonquin Nation in Quebec; we did a photo thing, and it was really empowering to have kids bring their grandparents' photos, and we started to identify people. All across Canada I see digitizing projects and museums and phenomenal collections, but what I don't see is an overarching narrative that makes it possible to access all these works with key search words. When a small museum hires three students for the summer at nine dollars a student and tells them to digitize a very crucial collection, you can't expect that they're necessarily going to put in the right names or the right key searches.
How do we ensure that in this immense project of collective digitization of history that's going on, there is some way we can have an overarching narrative for us as a nation?