Information & Ethics committee  That is an incredibly broad question. I can answer a very small part of it. My role is to interpret and to administer the Act and the Code. Many factors contribute to the public perception of Parliamentarians, but I can control only a very small number of those factors. All I ca

Information & Ethics committee  Well, as I said—

Information & Ethics committee  Now this is difficult to deal with, so I'll deal with it generally. I cannot comment on any inquiry that I am undertaking in any way, shape, or form, or make any comments about that.

Information & Ethics committee  There are some time requirements that are necessary to follow in the code. One receives a request. One very shortly, within a day or two, gives the person complained against a copy of the request. That person is then allowed 30 working days to respond. Then there's a seven-day pe

Information & Ethics committee  It is ten working days to receive the response. So there's a built-in time lag there of about a month and a half, which comes to about two months when you consider weekends and holidays and things. We were in a holiday period. That's the first observation. There's no way an inqu

Information & Ethics committee  No. I've hired two or three people over the course of the past year for six-month periods or something, who I know and trust and who are competent, because there's a lot of very important work that I have to do in this first year to get myself up and running, and I'm not fully st

Information & Ethics committee  That's right.

Information & Ethics committee  There were no law firms.

Information & Ethics committee  Do you mean with respect to my staff?

Information & Ethics committee  I'm hoping to get 100% of them.

Information & Ethics committee  I think it's probably a pretty good guess of what we'll need. In fact, it's possible that in a year or two we'll find that we don't need the full 50. On the other hand, we may find that there's a sudden escalation of inquiries. Each inquiry takes quite a bit of time and effort, a

Information & Ethics committee  Right.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, except I don't think the Senate has had an inquiry in years, if ever, frankly.

Information & Ethics committee  Right.

Information & Ethics committee  Is this the annual report and the inquiry reports? I'm not sure which reports—