Procedure and House Affairs committee  Since we have just launched our new Web site, we are not keeping those statistics at present. We will continue to upgrade the site and, no doubt, we will begin monitoring the numbers of hits our site gets and which pages are being consulted.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I cannot answer that because there is no counter.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  At present, we have not made any decisions in that regard. That is not where we have focused our efforts over the first two years. We wanted to provide what we felt was essential information and that is what we have done, but we are not counting the number of hits our site is getting.

Information & Ethics committee  They are included in that amount.

Information & Ethics committee  There is generally a $1.5 million budget for this item. After deducting the $700,000 for corporate services from that amount, we are talking about very small contracts. There is even a commissionaire contract. If we put all these contracts together they represent no more than $200,000.

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly. In addition to our corporate services, of course there are the information technology and financial services that we get from the House of Commons and the Library of Parliament.

Information & Ethics committee  It's usually 17% of the salary expenditure.

Information & Ethics committee  That average, the budget of $5.3 million, includes the employee benefits plan.

Information & Ethics committee  Our advisers are probably our largest group, and their salary range is from $64,000 to $79,000.

Information & Ethics committee  A big chunk of it is a memorandum of understanding for corporate services, and the other types that we have are often HR related. So it's our communications that we go out for, not lawyers.

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly.

Information & Ethics committee  One of the largest contracts granted this year was to examine all the job descriptions and the organizational structure. This contract was related to human resources. There were also contracts regarding communications. We had to use the services of an outside lawyer, with regard to the legal proceedings by Democracy Watch.

Information & Ethics committee  Based on the way that it's being presented, it is submitted to him only to ensure its inclusion in the budget.

Information & Ethics committee  Quite so.

Information & Ethics committee  What is important is administering our legislative mandate. As you noted, we maintain the same budget. When it was increased during the first year, it was really to ensure that we could pay all the salaries and cover the organizational chart. As I told you, our budget is quite small.