On Friday, 19 December 2025, as people were looking forward to a year-end break, LAC posted “Results from the LAC Service Improvement Survey: Final Report 2024–2025.” Announcements on Friday almost guarantee they will receive little attention, but not sufficient to dodge the attention of the OGS eWeekly.
The report on which it was based was delivered to LAC on 31 March 2025. What should one read into the nine-month delay?
As part of the ongoing response, there’s mention of “Launch of a project in collaboration with Internet Archive Canada to digitize 80,000 public domain publications, dating from 1322 to 1920.”
The Internet Archive Canada announced it on Canada Day 2024, stating, “Stay tuned for more updates on this exciting project, and join us in celebrating this significant milestone in the preservation of Canada’s documentary heritage.”That’s 18 months ago. Promises, promises. Where’s the product? Unless it’s buried, I couldn’t find anything among the many Canadian contributing organizations listed in the Internet Archive’s Top Collections.
Along came Carney.