Since she has been at the Office of the Information Commissioner, Commissioner Legault has striven to make efficiency and performance a priority.
When I arrived at the Office of the Information Commissioner as the person responsible for corporate services, my mandate letter was very clear: I was to be sure to minimize the corporate services footprint and assign the maximum number of staff to the program.
To that end, we examined how we could work in partnership with other fellow officers of Parliament or other government entities. For example, contracts involving our financial system are now outsourced to the Canadian Human Rights Commission. I'm not talking about people who take care of our finances, but about our financial system.
We also work with our colleagues on security, since we must follow specific security rules. We work with our colleagues at Elections Canada, the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
We have done a lot of work to reduce the time allocated to corporate services. We spend 20% of our time on these services, and when we compare ourselves to other organizations, we find we are very efficient.