David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Cuts to Canadian archives suit the Harper Tories in more ways than one

Members of the Harper Government’s Special Archival Team get ready to head out and deal with important historical documents. Federal officials may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Dr. Daniel Caron, the Archivist of Canada, and Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin.

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Last Thursday, the Archivist of Canada got up on his hind legs and tried to explain why there’s nothing to fear from the deep cuts to Libraries and Archives Canada being made by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.No one should worry just because “Libraries and Archives Canada is doing its part to support the of Canada’s effort to reduce the deficit,” Daniel Caron assured the annual meeting of the Canadian Library Association in Ottawa, because now in our new virtualized Canada “LAC will make use of social media and crowd sourcing!”

As a matter of fact Dr. Caron told the astonished librarians and archivists, . . . → Read More: David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Cuts to Canadian archives suit the Harper Tories in more ways than one