Information & Ethics committee  Really what we're looking at, then, is this. Here is the act; it's been established in legislation. The people in the Treasury Board Secretariat in the different policy areas—so in ours in this particular case—take that legislation or that act and interpret it in terms of what th

Information & Ethics committee  We provide that to departments along with.... So when we say “support”, it goes all the way from not only providing it, but publishing it, providing tools, easy access tools, training, and a help desk.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm just going to just turn that over to Mr. Lemieux.

Information & Ethics committee  It's an interesting space for us, because some of it is in the act, and that's the prerogative of Parliament to make decisions on what they want to incorporate. But where we spend our time with the commissioners--and we have a good relationship with the commissioners because of

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Lemieux may go into more detail, but his team is about 35 people overall. They support both the privacy elements and the access to information elements on both sides, so it's a mixed team supporting both of these areas. A lot of that, of course, is supporting, as I was indica

Information & Ethics committee  Maybe I'll start that, and once again I may turn to Mr. Lemieux. We've broken the role out of the policy work, and it's all part of policy suite renewal, as I'm sure you're well aware. A big part of policy suite renewal was to simplify policy so departments could execute it much

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and good afternoon. My name is Ken Cochrane, and I am the chief information officer of the Government of Canada. Today, as the chair indicated, I am accompanied by Mr. Donald Lemieux, who is the executive director of the information and privacy

Public Accounts committee  A lot of things were changed in 2002 as a result of 9/11. That is one of the reasons the policy was reissued. The policy is the overarching piece that covers many different standards. Many new things went into place, like protection of personnel, identification of assets, and del

Public Accounts committee  That's the latest version of it.

Public Accounts committee  It's been through a number of changes over time. I think 1986 was the original timeframe. It was modified in 1986, 1994, and 2002.

Public Accounts committee  It predates the current version. It was implemented in 1996.

Public Accounts committee  It was not modified in 2002.

Public Accounts committee  I think it's a big integrated system, so if there's some lack of clarity in the work that we've done in the past, then we obviously have a role to play in this overall.

Public Accounts committee  Maybe, Mr. Chair, I could respond to this. You would look at the efficiency within the system and ask that question, which I think is a legitimate one. One of the things the Treasury Board Secretariat is actually engaged in with Public Works and the PCO is leading an initiati

Public Accounts committee  The responsibility of the Treasury Board Secretariat, in many different policy areas, is to fundamentally establish the management policies of the Government of Canada. What we've been doing over the course of the last two years is going through what we call policy suite renewal.