Information & Ethics committee  Every inquiry is extremely different. Some are relatively easy; some are relatively complex. Some involve a lot of digging to get the facts; for some you have the facts right off the top. Some are very complex in the legal assessment and others are not that complex. They're very

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  To the public sector or the private sector?

Information & Ethics committee  To the public sector.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  It is 45.

Information & Ethics committee  None. This is my first budget. The previous budget was under somebody else, and none was lapsed.

Information & Ethics committee  I didn't, but the previous administration did.

Information & Ethics committee  We might. We don't know how quickly we're going to be able to staff. We don't know how many inquiries we're going to have. That's the biggest imponderable.

Information & Ethics committee  We haven't budgeted for a specific number. We've picked a reasonable number based on previous expectations.

Information & Ethics committee  I really don't know. There's no way I can tell, because it's up to MPs and--

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  No, I have no way of knowing. All I can--

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, my guess would be three or four, but I don't know.

Information & Ethics committee  I might, but I might not. It might be that they can be handled by my legal branch, by my advisors, and if it doesn't involve travel.... If all of a sudden I had an inquiry that involved a whole bunch of travel out to B.C. all the time or something, it might mount up.