Tom Wappel at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On April 26th, 2007. See this statement in context.

April 26th, 2007 / 10:50 a.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Tom Wappel

So the lawyer for the government department is the Department of Justice. Is that right? The Department of Justice would then make these decisions. I am going to make sure we remind the justice minister about these statistics when he's here.

Finally, on page 5, you said that the OIC has established a process whereby complaints under the act against the Information Commissioner can be independently investigated by former Supreme Court judge, Honourable Peter Cory. He has agreed to this role.

Under what statute, guideline, or whatever it is does he take his authority, and who is going to pay him? Does it come out of your budget?

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