Status of Women committee  Exactly. Of course, if the manager is the harasser, then they can come to me as the director of corporate management. Again, because we're so small, they have easy access to our HR service. They can come very informally to speak with our HR analyst or adviser. Under the policy,

Status of Women committee  Exactly.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  It is defined. When we define harassment, sexual harassment is included, of course. It covers both types of harassment complaints.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, that's right.

Status of Women committee  Exactly. It would cover—

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly. When you look at organizations in the public service, there was a threshold where if people had a budget—I can't remember what the exact amount was—these organizations were not asked to provide savings. In our situation, we're a relatively new organization that is stil

Information & Ethics committee  There is me and my administrative assistant, and there's also one person on maternity leave who works in finance. Yes, that's my team.

Information & Ethics committee  Because we are under Parliament, we try to respect all the policies and guidelines that are in the public service. As you can imagine, there are a number of policies that need to be applied and that requires a lot of expertise within our office. If we rely on one person only, and

Information & Ethics committee  When we can, we make use of arrangements. For example, we have MOUs with the House of Commons for information technology, which is something we could just not do on our own. We have an MOU with the Library of Parliament for the actual accounts—issuing cheques—because that is not

Information & Ethics committee  At this point, the primary focus was really to look at it to make sure that all our practices were in accordance with accounting principles. As we move forward, that is something we actually are mentioning. I don't know whether it's in our annual report or somewhere else, but we'

Information & Ethics committee  Under corporate management, we have two employees who are HR. Of course, we do our own staffing at the office. We have two people working in finance. We also have one person who is the coordinator of all administrative services at the office. Because we've been developing a new

Information & Ethics committee  Just to pick up on what the Commissioner mentioned, our biggest challenges over the last few years has been on the staffing issue, and now that we're fully staffed it has a direct impact on our spending. So what we are lapsing at the end of the day, which will be close to maybe 5

Information & Ethics committee  Actually, there is one in learning and communications, and the last one is in legal, but it's an articling student position. But we do have a strategy. We implemented last year a development program for advisors, because the compliance advisors are probably the more specific po

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In the weeks following the creation of the office back in July 2007, there was a Web site with basic information. I would say that the new site, the new structure, is about a year old.