Status of Women committee  I don't have specifics on specific items that have come through. What I can say again is that any item out of the last budget that has come forward with a Treasury Board submission would have had a gender-based analysis performed upon it as part of the submission process, and the

Status of Women committee  Part of the difficulty of dealing with specific items is that they're all wrapped up in the Treasury Board submission process, which are cabinet confidences, and that puts me in a bit of an awkward position.

Status of Women committee  Again, we'd have to go through and pull all of those submissions to determine them and see what we could pull out. We could certainly undertake to look at doing that. I'm just not in a position to be able to speak to a specific item that would have gone through Treasury Board.

Status of Women committee  Good morning. Thank you for the invitation to appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women to discuss the progress that Treasury Board Secretariat has made with respect to gender-based analysis (GBA). I am happy to be here to speak on behalf of

Finance committee  I think there are a couple things. One is that the parliamentary budget officer ultimately works for parliamentarians. From the perspective of public servants, we take very seriously inquiries from the officers of Parliament, whether they're from analysts in the library today or

Finance committee  I don't see any limit, in the legislation, on the parliamentary budget officer's ability to go back to whoever has made the request and to investigate something and report back an issue that the officer is having with obtaining the necessary information from a government departme

Finance committee  I'll ask Mr. Sullivan to address the question of the appointment of a permanent director.

Finance committee  There are limits on what the parliamentary budget officer can request. They have to request information that's within the mandate, so that's the first limit. They can only ask for what would actually relate to the discharge of the mandate. The second limit is that it must be fo

Finance committee  The act doesn't set out an appeal mechanism or anything like that. It prescribes a limit on the authorities of the parliamentary budget officer to obtain information. It is ultimately a question between the department that has been asked to give the information and the parliament

Finance committee  There are no conditions outside of whatever is framed within the legislation; Treasury Board has not imposed any conditions. The legislation sets the mandate and limits of the authorities for the parliamentary budget officer. The government, and Treasury Board, certainly, will be

Finance committee  No, the budget for the parliamentary budget officer would be housed within the budget of the Library of Parliament, which I understand is determined by the Board of Internal Economy.

Finance committee  Ultimately, after the board determines what it thinks is appropriate, it provides that to the Speaker. The Speaker then provides that to the President of the Treasury Board, who then tables it as part of the estimates before Parliament, for Parliament to vote on.

Finance committee  Other than responding to requests from the parliamentary budget officer for information, as set out in the act, there will be no involvement of Treasury Board. The only involvement, really, of Treasury Board at that point would be what it does for all of Parliament, that is, simp

Finance committee  Yes, I am.

Finance committee  Correct.