Library of Parliament committee  Within our staff, we have certainly spoken about it. In fact, we spoke about it at my very first meeting with all staff, when I became Parliamentary Librarian. After my opening remarks, the first question had to do with mental health. A staff member asked about my feelings about

Library of Parliament committee  In speaking to Anny Spooner, who is in charge of our boutique, I think she sees this new space as an enormous opportunity. As Monsieur Iacono said, we can do more with that. May I suggest just an idea? If any of the members of this committee would like to have a tour of the bout

Library of Parliament committee  Great.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Julian. Perhaps it would be helpful to do the comparison with the poet, where there's a practice of alternating between poets who write predominately in French or predominately in English, although we recently had a poet who also had Cree in her writing.

Canadian Heritage committee  I have to admit to a certain level of discomfort, as a parliamentary librarian, in pronouncing how to decide if somebody is a francophone or anglophone and whether they would qualify. Perhaps that's a question for the official languages commissioner rather than for the parliament

Canadian Heritage committee  In response to Ms. Gladu, in terms of the library, I'd just like to make a couple of comments that might be interesting to members. The addition of “digital creations” from a library point of view, in some ways there's a potential for it to be slightly easier for the library to

Canadian Heritage committee  In my experience with legislation, if the intent of Parliament is to make it clear that you want that included, it's certainly helpful. For example, for the committee members when we're looking at nominations, if we see that digital creations are explicitly included, then there's

Canadian Heritage committee  I think that answer is just fine. Thank you.