When we can, we make use of arrangements. For example, we have MOUs with the House of Commons for information technology, which is something we could just not do on our own. We have an MOU with the Library of Parliament for the actual accounts—issuing cheques—because that is not an expertise that we have. Compensation is done by Public Works, so we're using an agreement with Public Works to do our pay. When we can, we do go ahead and make these arrangements, but there are some services that we felt were better kept in-house.
On March 27th, 2012. See this statement in context.