Information & Ethics committee  That is an interesting point, because the word “ethics” almost never appears in the Act, except in my title and with my name. It is mentioned only in the Act of Parliament, which states that I may advise the Prime Minister when he asks for such advice on a range of limited issues

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, but that constitutes only a very small part of my work.

Information & Ethics committee  In general, I submit my reports to Parliament.

Information & Ethics committee  It hasn't to date. Mind you, I've only been in the job for nine months. Inquiries or examinations are part of the work of our office, but it's only a small part of that work. A large part of the work of our office is administering the annual reports and answering inquiries from t

Information & Ethics committee  It's things such as, “Should I accept this gift?”, or “Should I accept this invitation to speak here?”, or “Is it a problem that I'm a member of this board?”—things like that.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, and those are the things I'm hoping to get guidelines on, gradually. But as I say, I want them to be right; I don't want to have false starts with my guidelines.

Information & Ethics committee  There doesn't seem to be. I'm, in a way, a single window for a number of people. But in fact we have different systems, so that if a question comes in that obviously shouldn't have been directed to our office, we will, within a couple of days.... There's a certain portion of my s

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I believe we are in the midst of structural change. However, the Office is not that different from what it was before.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, we are.

Information & Ethics committee  I am not sure I have understood your question properly.

Information & Ethics committee  I did understand your question, but—

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, two of the three reports.

Information & Ethics committee  Are you asking what the differences are between then and now?