Public Accounts Committee on April 8th, 2008

Evidence of meeting #25 for Public Accounts in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was lawyers.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Chapter 5, Managing the Delivery of Legal Services to Government - Department of Justice Canada of the May 2007 Report of the Auditor General of Canada
Committee Business

MPs speaking

Shawn Murphy
Mark Holland
Jean-Yves Laforest
John Williams
David Christopherson
Borys Wrzesnewskyj
David Sweet
Charles Hubbard
Brian Fitzpatrick
Marcel Lussier
Mike Lake

Also speaking

Sheila Fraser  Auditor General of Canada, Office of the Auditor General of Canada
John Sims  Deputy Minister and Deputy Attorney General of Canada, Department of Justice
Terrance McAuley  Acting Assistant Deputy Minister, Management Sector, Department of Justice
Yves Côté  Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Justice

12:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Shawn Murphy

Will that be within two weeks, sir?

12:45 p.m.

Deputy Minister and Deputy Attorney General of Canada, Department of Justice

John Sims

Yes.

Thank you.

12:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Shawn Murphy

Again I want to thank you for appearing here today.

The committee has a couple of other items that we're going to discuss in camera, so I'm going to suspend this meeting right now; we will resume in about 60 seconds.

[Proceedings continue in camera]