Information & Ethics committee  Exactly. The economic increase, as I said, is usually based on what is being negotiated in the public service or in Parliament.

Information & Ethics committee  We are, just because, as I said, we're able to attract good candidates when we post employment opportunities.

Information & Ethics committee  That's pay.

Information & Ethics committee  In her opening remarks, the commissioner noted that we are implementing a performance management framework. We have in fact established the main roles and priorities for our organization. We have started gathering data, which is largely quantitative for now, but we hope to gath

Information & Ethics committee  The largest group that we have are the advisers, the analysts. In that group, the salary range is from $72,000 to $87,000.

Information & Ethics committee  We have a different classification structure. We use a company, Hay, which is a well-known company. It's been a number of years now where we've done a really thorough study, but when we compare with positions with similar responsibilities in the public service we know that we're

Information & Ethics committee  As the commissioner said, there are only two vacant positions right now. We have combined the roles of these two positions with those of an existing position because they were similar and the two roles could be combined into a single position. In another case, we have someone on

Information & Ethics committee  Our biggest expenditure is salary. So $4.6 million, plus the equivalent employee benefits plan, goes for salaries, which leaves the office with $1.6 million for non-salary expenditures. Most of the non-salary is spent on covering the cost of shared services agreements. We have, a

Information & Ethics committee  We have 49 positions of whom six are executives and the rest are staff.

Information & Ethics committee  The total investment was $240,000.

Information & Ethics committee  We used our internal reserve, because from within the budget that the commissioner gets every year there's an amount that is set aside for that type of investment. We actually were able to fund it internally, but from this pot, a reserve that we set aside every year.

Information & Ethics committee  If I remember well from my years in the public service, the Auditor General usually will audit the financial statements. In our case, because of our status, we actually went out. We're using Ernst & Young to do it, but they're using the same accounting principles. They're ver

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly, and it's now down to close to $500,000, but it's been reduced. The reserves took the biggest chunk of the cut we made to the budget.

Information & Ethics committee  If I may add just one piece of information, we also use the reserve to fund the development of new applications. The commissioner made a reference earlier in her opening remarks about the new public registry that was released at the beginning of April, and that was funded mostly