First, we are not decentralizing; we are federating. I think it is very important to make that distinction. I have been working since the beginning with the Canadian Historical Association, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, the Association of Canadian Archivists, the Canadian Library Association and the Association des archivistes du Québec. They are all at my table. Things will turn around slowly. But my job is not to defend a profession or anything like that, but to protect the documentary heritage of Canadians. So I am going to do everything I can so that physical or virtual vaults will be filled with what Canadians produce. That is my mandate and that is what I am going to do.
From a slightly more professional perspective, I created a university forum two years ago. I invite all Canadian educational institutions, be they EBSI or McGill University in Montreal, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Toronto or UBC, to take a seat at my table and talk about the training of future professionals. That's part of the problem. Our professionals have been lucky to a certain extent. In the world of writing, things have been quite static. But we are now in a completely different world. We have to rethink professions. It is a very important job. It is no longer behind a counter. It is somewhere on the Internet. It is about telling people that the document they have before them is authentic, that the digital book they have access to really does have 167 pages and a half. It is a different role. This is all happening at the moment and it raises concerns, of course. But we have to adjust. Otherwise, we will all just fade away. We will no longer be useful.