Information & Ethics committee  Not really. The Americans, by the size of their population and under the legislation, are on the lookout for the latest investigation technologies and techniques. However, this is an international problem. We can control certain things here at home, but we can't do it elsewhere.

Information & Ethics committee  The problem is definitely international in scope. The problem we have right now is that I think we're the only G8 country that does not have a law against identity theft. If we're going to have any credibility in the world, if we are going to be a world leader to try to tackle th

Information & Ethics committee  You're right; it is much larger, and the problem we're having in being able to get proper statistics is the fact, as Lisa said, that there's no law in Canada against identity theft. So it's very difficult, because identity theft being used for approximately 12 to 40 different off

Information & Ethics committee  Concerning this program you're talking about, not only are the investigators encouraged to take it, but I know that presently we are working with the university to see if we can somehow have modules specific to our types of investigations so our investigators can take those cours

Information & Ethics committee  It has been since April 1. What I've brought as statistics today are for between last April and March 31. There have been some changes in personnel. We've brought in, as I mentioned, different processes and strategies to reduce it. I'm quite happy with the reduction we were abl

Information & Ethics committee  Since April 1, 2006, the backlog for PIPEDA investigations was reduced by 60% and the backlog for Privacy Act investigations was reduced by 42%. These statistics are for the period between April 1 last year and March 31, 2007.

Information & Ethics committee  I see that at this point we have 40% of the backlog that needs to be reduced compared to last year as of April 1, 2006. As we had mentioned before, the fact that we will be hiring more investigators will certainly assist us. We're also looking at changing some processes and hir

Information & Ethics committee  I have 10 vacancies.

Information & Ethics committee  I would suspect that the 29 would be within the whole OPC organization. I'm talking specifically about the investigation branch.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Right now we're in the hiring process to obtain more investigators. I am confident that if we are able to fill our vacancies at this time, by the end of this fiscal year we will have taken care of the backlog.

Information & Ethics committee  We have some posters out right now, and we have a considerable number of people who have applied. We're going through the process of elimination and the exams and the interviews. It will only be at that point that I'll be able to determine whether or not we'll be able to fill all

Information & Ethics committee  Approximately, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  If someone wanted from the RCMP all the personal information that their organization has on them, then according to the act, the RCMP have 30 days to provide this information.

Information & Ethics committee  Normally we will contact the department and use as much influence as possible to get them to provide the information to the individual. Oftentimes we'll not only mediate it, we will put the necessary pressure on the department to—