Thank you for the question.
I must say that the changes made to the Access to Information Act have put pressure on Library and Archives Canada. However, our role should be properly understood.
We hold historical records from the federal government. In addition, most of our collections are made up of paper documents stored in boxes. In our collections, we have 250 linear kilometres of archived documents. We also have digital documents, but it is much more complex to find analog documents to answer questions. We have documents from 300 federal institutions, which is a large number of specialized areas. We've started getting a lot more requests, but also larger and more complex ones. We also have information that is classified as secret or top secret.
My colleague Jennifer Schofield could add some more technical details about our current situation.