Information & Ethics committee  Yes; in fact, if you come to our office, it's going to be free of charge. If you go to Ancestry.ca for some time, you're going to have to pay. It's mixed.... Maybe Jean-Stéphen can help me on the details, but to make this thing largely available to the public, if you come to us

Information & Ethics committee  I would actually like to add that we are aware and we are working closely with Ms. Charette. But our contribution is limited. We have data, but she has to work with every department because we don’t have the data from all the departments.

Information & Ethics committee  We contribute with some data.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  No, not in terms of the portal, not to my knowledge.

Information & Ethics committee  We are working closely with the chief information officer, Ms. Charette. We have worked together with the Treasury Board Secretariat to develop the record-keeping directive. This will bring more rigour into an electronic world that is quite out of control. To come back to your

Information & Ethics committee  With regard to how Library and Archives Canada determines what is of interest, we first answer the requests of our users. On our latest initiative, instead of photocopying the requests, we are digitizing them; over time, they will become available to all Canadians. We believe tha

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I am here in my capacity as Librarian and Archivist of Canada, to share with you my observations and comments about your study on open government. I am accompanied this afternoon by Mr. Jean-Stéphen Piché, the Assistant De

Official Languages committee  First, the champion has to be a member of senior management, of the executive committee. There are various files, so it's important that it's someone bilingual, someone who can promote the official languages, of course, which should be the case of all members of senior management

Official Languages committee  Yes. The person has to be a high-level employee. Otherwise that has no impact.

Official Languages committee  I don't think he can do anything more, no. I think he's doing his job. He's an officer of Parliament who is doing a good job. Perhaps I'd like to go back over what you said about volunteer work. I think that may be misinterpreted. I entirely agree with the act. What I said at th

Official Languages committee  We can do that.

Official Languages committee  This is interesting, because I'm doing a tour of the country, and New Brunswick is in January.

Official Languages committee  We have a good relationship with Marion Beyea, and we work very closely; we meet twice a year, all together, but I'm going to New Brunswick to develop a more close relationship with them. I'm also going to talk about les Acadiens at the same time, because she's part of the franco

Official Languages committee  We're meeting them in Fredericton.