Information & Ethics Committee on Nov. 1st, 2006

Evidence of meeting #14 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was budget.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Study on issues related to the alleged disclosure of the names of Access to Information applicants

Main Estimates 2006-2007: Vote 15 (Office of the Ethics Commissioner of Canada) under PARLIAMENT

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Bernard Shapiro Ethics Commissioner, Office of the Ethics Commissioner

Robert Benson Deputy Commissioner, Office of the Ethics Commissioner

Lyne Robinson-Dalpé Director, Corporate Affairs, Office of the Ethics Commissioner

4:30 p.m.

Liberal

Jim Peterson Liberal Willowdale, ON

All the information is in the estimates, and all of it is posted on an ongoing basis, so it's a very transparent system.

4:35 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Tom Wappel

That may be, but speaking for myself, I don't like the computers. It's nice if the researchers give it to me in a package.

4:35 p.m.

Liberal

Jim Peterson Liberal Willowdale, ON

We have the estimates in hard print.

4:35 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Tom Wappel

Yes, we do. Those we have, absolutely.

Any other questions of the commissioner or his staff?

Commissioner and staff, thank you so much for appearing. We appreciate it. Thank you for your previous letter as well.

I'm going to suspend for two to three minutes, after which time we will go in camera to continue discussion of our draft report--members and staff only.

[Proceedings continue in camera]