Information & Ethics committee  With the establishment of our legal section there is a requirement for periodicals and books that we weren't investing in before. That's a major contribution, and also printing because we're going to get into more outreach material. There also may be a requirement for more printi

Information & Ethics committee  As Ms. Dawson mentioned, for 2007-08, we forecast a lapse of around $1 million.

Information & Ethics committee  It will occur. The numbers are not yet final, but it will be around that amount.

Information & Ethics committee  If I may, the budget wasn't based on the number of inquiries. Indirectly, it was, but it was about setting up an internal legal shop. It was about having sufficient resources to deal with requests.

Information & Ethics committee  It doesn't get challenged at that point.

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly. It is distributed between those two main activities, just as corporate services and any other activities would be.

Information & Ethics committee  We have 50 in total. The last number of years have been pretty unusual, let's say, on the salary side. As an example, for 2007-08 we actually spent less on salary dollars than we did the year before.

Information & Ethics committee  We had vacancies. And when we finally decided to go ahead with our legal shop, that only took place at the end of the fiscal year. So obviously they only used a quarter of the salary.

Information & Ethics committee  It is.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely. That is a correct conclusion.

Information & Ethics committee  We're confident that we're not going to come back and ask for additional funding.

Information & Ethics committee  It's for 50 positions.

Information & Ethics committee  Part of it is, because the base budget was $5.1 million. So the $3 million was added to the $5.1 million.

Information & Ethics committee  I think there were just assumptions made by the people who were at the office at that time in discussions with Treasury Board. So they put $3 million into the fiscal framework. That's how much they estimated the increase to be with the change in mandate. That would be the impact

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.