Mr. Tom Pulcine at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On February 11th, 2009. See this statement in context.

February 11th, 2009 / 5:15 p.m.

Director General and Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Services Branch, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

So in terms of doing the calculations, it was quite a straightforward calculation. You just took what the template said for an organization this size, indicating what was expected of you. This is what you're expected to have in terms of an audit committee and the costs associated with the audit committee, and this is what is expected of you from the audits.

So to respond to your question, it was a model that the Office of the Comptroller General and the Treasury Board Secretariat presumably felt was the best practice—

As spoken

See context to find out what was said next.