The $400,000 a year the provincial government has pledged for archiving official records is a relatively small amount, but it promises good value.
The government has been warehousing records, but hasn’t archived them for 10 years. There’s a difference. Merely storing the records does little good — they need to be evaluated, indexed, sorted and made easily accessible.
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