Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans is telling the media that the DFO library collections are being digitized and blaming library closures on public walk-ins, when it is the government scientists who actually need the information.
In a written response to me, the minister said that the department does not have the ability to determine what has to be digitized and there is no record of what happened to most of the library materials.
What is it? Was the response to me correct, or is the minister misleading Canadians?