Canadian Heritage committee  Our acquisition budgets are fairly stable. I should probably explain how our acquisition budgets work. Yes, there is cash involved. That's probably what you are talking about. However, there is also a lot of material we pay for using tax receipts. That represents perhaps $5 milli

Canadian Heritage committee  No. There are indeed fewer old documents than before. Therefore, we are monitoring the situation and watching for any developments. I have been with Library and Archives Canada for eight years. Sometimes we win, and sometimes we lose. Documents are often sold by auction. I rememb

Canadian Heritage committee  Do you mean submitted by Canadians?

Canadian Heritage committee  Could you expand a little bit?

Canadian Heritage committee  I see your point. We have an approach to acquire material. For the 150th anniversary and other events, we have the whole-of-society approach. We look at the material and we decide on the historical value of the material to be acquired by the national archives. It's not a specif

Canadian Heritage committee  The Lest We Forget program is a very good program. It was developed by a professor of history. We adapted it so we could use our material and offer some sessions within 395 Wellington. We decided to expand. First was through the web. We developed a user guide the teachers can uti

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee. My presentation will also be in both official languages. Let me begin by thanking you for giving me the opportunity to appear today. I am here in my capacity as Deputy Head and Librarian a

Information & Ethics committee  I'll just say that we will continue to work to decrease the amount of time between the moment we acquire something and the time it's available to Canadians.

Information & Ethics committee  In fact, the role we have had—and continue to have, since this is just the beginning—has to do with implementing the record-keeping directive. We developed it together with the Treasury Board. In 2005-2006, when we first created it, our goal was to ensure that, in the end, our va

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not competent to answer the question.

Information & Ethics committee  Developing a trusted digital repository is one of my three priorities. It is a concern around the world. We are progressing well, and we want to do it because the world is totally different on that. We want to do it in collaboration across the country, so we're talking more about

Information & Ethics committee  I would say it is linked to that concept. It is in fact a way to ensure that the proper documentation is being created so that we can track it and ingest it at Library and Archives Canada for long-term use.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chairman, my personal view is that it's a cultural thing, so it will come with generations. It will come with people being able to behave in a way that is totally different from what we're used to. The record-keeping directive is quite a good administrative document, and we a

Information & Ethics committee  When I started this thing in 2005, the idea was to replicate what we have in Finance to some extent. It's something you can control to some extent. You can have a legal requirement at some point. If someone decides to go around the rules, so be it. I think that in terms of progr

Information & Ethics committee  Well, there's the directive, yes. Absolutely.