Information & Ethics committee  I would not like to leave you as parliamentarians with the impression that I took 29 vacation days at government expense. That is not true. I was out of the country working for 10 days, as approved by the chairman of the board. Then I wrote reports that served to further the inte

Information & Ethics committee  To put things back into context, I hired an extraordinary young woman last year who had worked for the City of Montreal for 20 years as vice-president of planning and maintenance. Now that the City of Montreal has a new director general, she was offered her dream job as the City

Information & Ethics committee  I cannot talk about that. It is new and we were not aware of that situation. I do not want to comment on that allegation. I am not aware of what happened with the Office of the Auditor General. I cannot comment on the allegation. If we dismiss people, it is because our corporati

Information & Ethics committee  My salary is not public information, sir.

Information & Ethics committee  No, I am not appointed by the governor in council. I am appointed by the board of the Old Port of Montréal Corporation. The information is not public.

Information & Ethics committee  My reports do not include any systematic studies of particular files. As you will see, they contain reports that comment on all the observations I made. However, once I got back to Montreal, my teams contacted the institutions that, for instance, toured the "Star Wars" exhibit. T

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it's in the report. I didn't meet with anyone on site.

Information & Ethics committee  It will be in the report that you'll receive.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  I took photos and went to…

Information & Ethics committee  I will reply to your question in two ways, Mr. Mayes. First of all, parliamentarians can see the results of our work in the corporation's business plan for 2012-2013. We submitted a plan to the government that shows a 5% reduction in the government's financial contribution to our

Information & Ethics committee  We hold retreats every year to examine each of the departments. We look at the plan for the workforce and the expenditures, and we try to rationalize our expenditures. This year, we reduced the payroll by 9% to stay within our budget, our funding. We are making considerable effor

Information & Ethics committee  To answer your question, I'll say that we hired one person we had confidence in. We acted on the basis of that confidence. I repeat that that person had a very impressive CV with respect to the service provided at the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, at Telefilm Canada an

Information & Ethics committee  Could you please ask me a specific question?

Information & Ethics committee  The Auditor General has audited our financial statements every year. There was a special audit in 2004. We received excellent recommendations from the Auditor General of Canada that helped us improve our practices and to develop. We are currently undergoing a special audit by th