Information & Ethics committee  I don't believe so. In meeting with central agencies to discuss the financing of this event, we explored that as a way to address it. But to my knowledge it hasn't been done as a common practice.

Information & Ethics committee  It is possible. As I said, to my knowledge it hasn't been common practice in the past, but you would have to ask these questions to Public Works delegates.

Information & Ethics committee  As was mentioned, the loan is for $4.1 million, and the repayment of the loan amounts to approximately $270,000 a year over the 15-year horizon. In addition to that, because we're making efforts to create more efficiencies as it relates to our space, PWGSC, Public Works, is par

Information & Ethics committee  The repayment will be noticed through a decrease in the funding to the amount of about $270,000 a year for 15 years.

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly. Of the $24 million in budgets that we have in the main estimates for 2014-15, about two-thirds of that is for salary of our personnel. We have about 181 FTEs in our organization. The remainder is other operating funds. A small portion of that, approximately $500,000,

Information & Ethics committee  I'm guessing you're looking at the main estimates, and I have a caution there. You're looking at expenditures from the main estimates of 2014-15, 2015-16, and 2016-17. The numbers fluctuate. But the caution is that a different methodology has been imposed on us by Treasury Board

Information & Ethics committee  In the breakdown, if you want, by type of activity, you'll find informatics, IMT, information management and technology; the bulk of the money is there. You'll also find your typical sections or functions such as finance, human resources, strategic planning, and there's also the

Information & Ethics committee  As mentioned earlier, there was a significant change in the methodology to account for internal services within the federal government. Treasury Board Secretariat issued guidelines on what should be seen within any internal service program activity, which has led to a shift over

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, again because of the change in methodologies.

Information & Ethics committee  I would add that we share things on three levels. One level is from a facilities perspective. The second level is from a systems perspective. The third level is from a knowledge perspective. On the knowledge side, as agents of Parliament, we get together at minimum on a monthly

Information & Ethics committee  In some aspects.... For example, on the IT side, our premises are shared with the Office of the Official Languages Commissioner. The IT folks for both organizations are sitting together. They share best practices, tools that we buy, and so on. There is always a conversation going

Information & Ethics committee  I'll ballpark these figures here. You have about $3 million that will be for the IM and IT components of the organization. I'll just qualify. Earlier I said we centralize a number of functions. From an IT perspective, for example, we have tools and applications internally that

Information & Ethics committee  No, but it's sitting in internal services basically. We're looking at about $3 million of folks there. Part of it is true corporate and part of it is program-related. As well, you'll have about $1 million that's dedicated to the financial function. I'll remind you that as a sma

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, $5.5 million. There is all the administrative side of things as well as security. That's about $0.5 million.

Information & Ethics committee  We have on-site a number of functions that will include, for example, staff for health and safety, staff who will handle the day-to-day administration, facilities, management, and things of this sort.