Government Operations committee  I think that's something we will probably need to take back to Treasury Board. I'm not sure whether the RPP will be prepared on anything other than the mains. Of course, the mains are before the budget, so I'm not sure if the budget will get caught up until the supplementary esti

Government Operations committee  I will boldly dive into these waters, as best I can. As the member points out, we don't really control the cycle. The cycle has always been, and has always created some tensions and issues around what information and whether the information is timed properly or not. RPPs have al

Government Operations committee  It's not just the three days of hearings. There would also be the preparation time for commission counsel to be able to conduct those hearings. It would be any additional time they would have to have paid for any of their scientific experts to provide them with advice and support

Government Operations committee  The services are in the nature of internal services, administrative services, financial management, human resources support, audit function, records management, IT support—those kinds of things. The organizations that they're provided for would be the SIRC, the Security Intellige

Government Operations committee  The $1.4 million was necessitated due to the commission’s having to recommence public hearings for an additional three days in order to receive submissions on the infectious salmon anemia virus. That contributed to the need to have some additional costs for commission counsel, th

Government Operations committee  I'll start with the cost first. The total budget is $26.4 million for the commission. Again, my understanding is that the commissioner expects to come within that budget. In terms of timing, the commissioner is currently scheduled to provide his final report by June 30, 2012, b

Government Operations committee  The main thing is that it's mostly through the front-end work at the setting up of the commission, in establishing the rules and procedures that the commissioner is going to follow in terms of contracting, etc., and working through exactly how the agreements are going to be struc

Government Operations committee  There were 20 participants who were granted standing, and my understanding is that 15 of the 20 participants have been provided with financial assistance for their counsel. It's about 15 of the 20 participants.

Government Operations committee  Yes. It's always tough to say “unusual”, but just to give some context, this is a commission that's focused on policy and scientific issues. I would say that could be a little bit of an unusual subject matter for a commission of inquiry. That said, the commission has heard from m

Government Operations committee  That was a pretty, I would say, complex piece of work for this particular commissioner, and it involved a fair amount of front-end work by the commissioner and the council team that he put together to try to sort out how many parties were going to be participating, and even just

Government Operations committee  In addition to that, though—excuse me, Mr. Chair—the agreement has a clause in it that makes it very clear that the government, in order to discharge the responsibility of ministers to account to Parliament, can make public the terms and conditions of that agreement, and in effec

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I wouldn't want to speculate as to what would have happened had the Public Appointments Commission been in place. I would simply note that the mandate of that commission is to provide advice to the government on establishing selection processes and that work has been d

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chairman, I'd like to know exactly what the gag order is that the member is referring to. I'm not clear what he's referring to.

Government Operations committee  There is standard language in the settlement agreement around the confidentiality of the terms and conditions of the agreement, which you will find in any settlement agreement in any labour situation. In—

Government Operations committee  It's difficult to figure out exactly what the question is under the list of questions that were asked.