Reever, in the Study, with the Tripod

Chances are, if the LAC were a game of Clue, and some poor LAC or Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) employee were to be found dead tomorrow - sorry, the LAC is actually closed until Tuesday the 19th because of Victoria Day on Monday - the above would probably be the winning formula. 

I was getting help from this very sweet French Canadian Librarian (Sophie) in trying to understand why documents in the paper indices were not actually located on the online database (only 30-40% of their documents are listed online, I later found out) and I turned to Sophie and had to say: "It seems to me that the Archives doesn't actually want you to find anything, pretty much ever." She laughed, and said "Yeah." Just - "yeah." 

No refuting on her end, because she knows - she knows how they operate, and the meta-hoops within hoops within microscopic hoops you need to jump through. All just to find out that the document you need, when you find it after 50 minutes of help from a staff member, is Restricted Code 32, and will take 4-6 weeks to be released to you, if it is at all. And you've only got two weeks left.

At least my view from the Study where I murdered that ATIP staffer is pretty. And Karen wont be getting her Tripod back - it's in lock-up. And I need bail money...