Information & Ethics committee  When CASL was adopted, we reached an agreement with the CRTC to fund the equivalent of one person, one employee, for intelligence and analysis leading to certain enforcement activities under CASL. After implementation of this new legislation, we thought that this resource should

Information & Ethics committee  If you look at the complaints made over the past five years under the Privacy Act, the public sector law, the number has quadrupled. This includes two phenomena for which we have generic approaches: individuals who make a large number of complaints, and issues that result in a la

Information & Ethics committee  We've done quite a bit and we have tried to address the backlog. For instance, on the productivity of our investigative group looking at cases under the Privacy Act, the public sector, their productivity has doubled in the past five years through various means, by trying to resol

Information & Ethics committee  I would start with the issue of the backlog in the investigation of complaints as part of our workload generally. I've explained how, through various measures, we have succeeded in doubling our productivity. What I have to do also is devote sufficient resources to investigations

Information & Ethics committee  In our view it would be in the order of $4 million to $5 million.

Information & Ethics committee  On that particular aspect, it would be around or under $1 million. The things we would like to achieve that we feel we cannot achieve under the current budget can be divided in part into investigative activities, including analysis of breach notifications. That would be around $1

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  As you know, we are proceeding with a review of how Bill C-51 is being implemented under current funding. I think that this is a priority area, but there may be limits to how broad that review would be. With additional money we would be able to look at the practice of more depar

Information & Ethics committee  As I indicated at a previous meeting, we've sent a survey to all departments to determine exactly where best to focus our efforts. We're still at the point of analyzing how many of these departments we will look at. But clearly, with no funding it's going to be a handful of depar

Information & Ethics committee  It's going to probably take two years or so. This fall I intend to make public the results of our initial survey to departments, so that will give a certain sense of how Bill C-51 is being applied on the ground, but there will not be much in-depth analysis of the types of informa

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. As I said, the budget is around $25 million. It's $24.5 million in total, $22 million requiring approval by Parliament and another $2.5 million representing statutory forecasts for employee benefits that do not require additional approval by Parliament. Of that amount of $

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I am very pleased to be here again, this time, to talk about our office's main estimates. With me today are Daniel Nadeau, our chief financial officer, and Patricia Kosseim, senior general counsel and director general, legal services, policy and r

Human Resources committee  First of all, I think that as a policy matter, unions as well as other institutions should be accountable. To whom they should be accountable is an interesting question. In the first instance, you can easily make the case that they should be accountable to their members. Should

Human Resources committee  I'm commenting on the bill before you now, which is to repeal these provisions. If other amendments were before me, I wouldn't comment on what Parliament presents, but I guess accountability is certainly a factor here. I would urge that there be a balance between measures that

Human Resources committee  I talked about them during my opening remarks. Bill C-377 requires labour organizations to disclose information that is considered to be among the most sensitive—information on the political activities of union members. A person's political activities, including those of a union