Information & Ethics committee  For hospitality?

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, they are, honourable member, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  They have a per diem of $250 a day.

Information & Ethics committee  No, it isn't. It's hard to understand our situation. We went from about $10 million to about $16 million.

Information & Ethics committee  Can I ask the director of corporate services?

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I saw a version of it on a BlackBerry.

Information & Ethics committee  I was at a conference.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, well, I'm familiar with it because at the conference, it was announced that it was based on a text from a Washington think tank called EPIC, which rated a certain number of countries. Our second place is largely due to our constitutional protections, the new law, PIPEDA, the government's privacy impact assessment program, and so on—and the fact that on an international scale we don't have national ID cards yet.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  No, not that we've defined. We are doing an exercise as to the implications of Bill C-2, the Federal Accountability Act, as are all agencies and government departments at the request of Treasury Board. But we've just started that analysis.

Information & Ethics committee  May I answer? Yes, honourable member, and this is what we set out in the report this committee asked us to draw up on the reforms of the Privacy Act.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I don't think many of the government departments listen to us as they should, because we basically can't go anywhere with any sanctions.

Information & Ethics committee  We suggested that we should look at the sanctions in PIPEDA, the private sector commercial law. Citizens should be able to go to court, and if they don't have the satisfaction that they want from the federal government—

Information & Ethics committee  We could go to court on their behalf, yes. Either one works, according to the model that is in PIPEDA. PIPEDA allows for both.

Information & Ethics committee  Perhaps, yes.