Ms. Denise Benoit at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On April 20th, 2009. See this statement in context.

April 20th, 2009 / 4:20 p.m.

Director, Corporate Management, Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner

The appropriations have gone up. There was some money set aside, because when the act came into effect there was an extended mandate. There was up to $3 million made available to our office to increase our budget if we needed it. We never got the full amount.

But I do have something here. When we first started, our budget was $5.8 million, and that was for 2007-08. It went up to $7.1 million last year, and we're still at $7.1 million.

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