Information & Ethics committee  Wayne, you could help me out here. With respect to Bill C-2, we've been trying to understand the new organizations clearly. The very first step is to determine whether the new organization covered by the Privacy Act is in fact already covered by PIPEDA, because if it is covered b

Information & Ethics committee  The travel expenses for 2005-06 were $285,000. For last year, I don't have it broken down between domestic and foreign. I have our forecast for 2006-07 broken down by domestic and foreign, if you want that.

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of hospitality, bear with me for a moment. I'm trying to find whether I have last year's with me.

Information & Ethics committee  I have the forecast.

Information & Ethics committee  I will.

Information & Ethics committee  Let me add to that. What you're seeing there is the contract value. We anticipate there will be registration fees for participants in the conference, which would reduce the overall cost of that contract from $750,000 or thereabouts, by $500,000, to approximately $250,000. The pla

Information & Ethics committee  I've looked at the blues for the Ethics Commissioner's presentation, and I recognize that there's a reference to their website for additional information. Unlike the Ethics Commissioner--

Information & Ethics committee  No, in our case, what you're seeing in terms of proactive disclosure as related to contracting is a Treasury Board policy that indicates that we're supposed to proactively disclose all contracts issued over $10,000, so that's the result of what you're look at. In theory, the of

Information & Ethics committee  Theoretically, we could be proactively disclosing contracts up to $4.8 million. So the question in some ways is bigger than the $1 million question.

Information & Ethics committee  That's right.

Information & Ethics committee  Our budget has an “other” operating component of $4.8 million, most of which will be subject to proactive disclosure. Included in there would be travel, hospitality, and contracts awarded over $10,000. For example--

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have the full details. What I understand is that they were on a contract that was let for the purpose of one of the audits being conducted by our audit review branch.

Information & Ethics committee  That's right.

Information & Ethics committee  The current forecast is $500,000.

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of the net cost to the Crown, it won't be the $750,000; it would be the $250,000, over this fiscal year and the next fiscal year. For what you were looking at, in terms of proactive disclosure we have to disclose the contract value. The contract value at its upper limit