The way the Library and Archives of Canada Act works is that each federal institution has a retention calendar for each class of document.
For example, an institution may keep its active records and may keep dormant records for a number of years within the institution. Eventually they are either disposed of by the institution or transferred to Library and Archives. They would be kept then for a number of years.
It's really complex. Each class of documents has its own retention period. It really depends on the type of document we're talking about, and it varies from one institution to another.
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