Madam Chair, it's a pretty fluid process in terms of organizing visits. There are several categories of visits. We have state visits, official visits, working visits and private visits. I can get into the details of those if you're interested.
Essentially, a state visit would be hosted by the Governor General. Official and working visits would be invited by the Prime Minister. A private visit is just a head of state visiting family or a private visit to Canada with no interaction with our leadership.
Visits are often initiated through the course of bilateral meetings, a summit, an incoming visit or diplomatic exchanges. The visit itself, the dates of the visit and the type of visit will be confirmed through extensive consultations, as appropriate, with Rideau Hall, the Prime Minister's Office, the PCO, geographic divisions within Global Affairs, and the two embassies or high commissions.
My bureau has three divisions. One does visits, one does events and the other manages the diplomatic corps. The visits and the events divisions are the two key implicated divisions. They will start providing logistical and protocol coordination in close collaboration with Rideau Hall, the PMO, the PCO, GAC, the RCMP and so on. This is where the Parliament piece comes in. If there's a parliamentary component to it, we will liaise with parliamentary protocol.
To be clear on the Speaker's office, we have no direct relationship with the Speaker's office. If there are any issues regarding an address to Parliament, it would be dealt with by us through parliamentary protocol. We'll define the standards of treatment, what we do, the arrival, who's going to be greeting and every little detail with the visiting delegation. We'll have an advance visit to go through all the sites with them, including here. We would come here, and then parliamentary protocol would host us and the visiting advance delegation. We would go around and walk through all the sites and so on.
That's sort of what we do. We oversee the budgets and approve the expenses, and then report on them at a later date. The events team will be in charge of organizing any events that are related to the visit.