Information & Ethics committee  Yes, exactly as the commissioner mentioned, evaluations of staff account for the number of transactions they've done, so basically how many people they've put in compliance, how many people they've dealt with on their annual reviews, and so on and so forth. We've developed some

Information & Ethics committee  I have a statistic on that somewhere. In fact, it always depends on the number of people who are appointed. We contact all of the public office holders and all of the members at least once a year during the annual review. We also communicate with all those who are appointed for t

Information & Ethics committee  I think we're doing a lot of outreach to people. We tend to explain the rules to them and we meet with them, and by doing that I think they're more cognizant of their obligations, and of course, they do want to comply with the rules. So whatever we tell them or whatever advice we

Information & Ethics committee  The way it works now is that one of our staff automatically meets, or calls, individual public office holders and members of Parliament. There is no requirement for a one-on-one meeting, but there is a verbal briefing with each individual, including MPs. If MPs request a one-on-o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For the last election, for example, we had 111 new MPs and all the others were returning. As of seven months later, there were still about 20 of them who had not provided their final documents to make them public. Of course, public declarations have to be put on our website in th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can't say how many. There was a handful that were maybe valid. Some people were out of town, some people could not access the documents, could not obtain the information from their spouses, so there were a number of reasons for people not getting.... In some cases people did no

Information & Ethics committee  When we look at activities, we look at whether or not there would be a conflict with your official responsibilities in the House, so whether you're sitting on a committee that would take a decision or take part in discussions that could affect your interest in that outside activi

Information & Ethics committee  Basically, most of the calls we get are in some cases referred to as calls with regard to the acceptance of gifts and invitations and things like that. In the case of a conference that would be sponsored or supported by their political parties, unfortunately most of them would

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Basically, over the next year we'll focus a little more on outreach, on informing members of their obligations and being more visible in your day-to-day life.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It means documents for transportation and accommodation: hotel bills and your flight. Other than that, for your gifts you receive you don't have to demonstrate what the value is. For other miscellaneous expenses, you don't have to provide supporting documents, but subsection 15(2

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's very important for our office to keep a record of all the conversations with our clients, with MPs. Every advisor you speak with on a regular basis must make a note in your file for future reference following each conversation. If ever you wanted to go back and really make s

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You can rest assured. Following your request, we contacted whips from other political parties to let them know it was unacceptable for their members to receive coverages.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, without naming any particulars, yes, there are some people who come into public office to become reporting public office holders and who are on leave of absence from their home organizations. I can't say much more, unfortunately.

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of what you're referring to, a lot of the issues are related to sponsored travel. Big amounts of travel are related to sponsored travel and are therefore related under the code. Parliament business is also covered under the code. There are some recusal mechanisms that MP