Mr. Tom Pulcine (Director General and Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Services Branch, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada) at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

We don't expect that the freeze in the operating budget will have an impact on the resources of this legislation. Our understanding, as it relates to the freeze in the operating budget, is that it does not affect any new initiatives. If this legislation was to pass and resources were to be allocated through the estimates process, whether it be these supplementary estimates or next year's main estimates or supplementary estimates within the next fiscal year, then we would expect that would happen.