Public Accounts committee  The policy sets out cash awards.

Public Accounts committee  It depends. I'll refer to the policy here. We have awards for government use of inventions, and there could be an award of up to $5,000 for that.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. It's recognition more than anything else.

Public Accounts committee  As we said in our management response, we're taking measures to collect data and report better on intellectual property that's related to contracting and other activities. So to that extent we're improving our understanding of it.

Public Accounts committee  As far as departmental performance reports are concerned, the departments are the ones that should be reporting it. Deputy heads are managing it.

Public Accounts committee  Excuse me. Pour quel...?

Public Accounts committee  We don't have an estimate of that.

Public Accounts committee  I was speaking specifically of our role with respect to awards for innovators and inventors. The policy on intellectual property is, in a sense, one that we're a partner in with Industry Canada. They are the subject matter experts in that area and, as you can imagine, have an i

Public Accounts committee  I would say it's both. For example, in 2007, when we recognized that the data were not being collected as they should have been against procurement contracts and IP contained therein, we started to address that jointly. I think it helps to have a joint approach, because we use ou

Public Accounts committee  I think we're a cheerleader. In the case of awards, providing awards to public servants who achieve is very much a deputy head responsibility. We would encourage them to offer awards, because we think that's part of sound management. With a well-motivated and mobilized community

Public Accounts committee  I think the intent was to put the management of IP into departmental hands, where we felt the interests of departments were aligned with managing it well. As we know, there was a policy in place that called for tracking in relation to IP in a way that wasn't done, and the Auditor

Public Accounts committee  I think the decentralized approach can certainly work, and through our diligence and response to the Auditor General's report we can certainly make it work well. The area I'm primarily interested in as chief human resources officer is the awards to public servants for their acti

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for your invitation to appear before the committee on the issue of the management of intellectual property in the Government of Canada. I can assure you that the Treasury Board Secretariat and Industry Canada are working together to address th

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, thank you--again--for the opportunity to talk to you, this time about the government's procurement process for the new integrated relocation program. I'd like to begin by recognizing the considerable work on this file carried out by this committee and by the Office of

Public Accounts committee  No, Mr. Chairman, except to say thanks for the opportunity to come today and explain our position. I must say that it took us a lot of effort to try to zero in on that personal information. When I was first presented with this situation, I was told that it would take us until s