Government Operations committee  We are looking for a net amount of $1.4 million. In that amount, there's $2.9 million for security. That is for security for the entirety of the organization. So anything we're doing with respect to initiatives covers both the Prime Minister and all of his staff.

Government Operations committee  No. In fact there is a decrease. The reduction for the ministers' budgets will directly affect program activity one, which is what you were referring to, and that will go down by $1.6 million as well as by a portion of the salary reduction, which will also be applied to them. I t

Government Operations committee  Up until last year the Prime Minister's Office had a budget of 85 FTEs, and last year, as you will recall, we came in to get funding for some chronic pressures. Part of that affected the Prime Minister's Office, and they are now at 114 staff. With respect to the Privy Council O

Government Operations committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair. I'm pleased to meet with the members of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. I am accompanied by Jean-Philippe Caron, Director of Security Operations. My introductory comments pertain to the 2010-2011 supplementary estimates (B)

Government Operations committee  It would. I would say the only exception to that logic would be for the Cohen commission, which was just launched. So we will be coming forward for funding for it, but no funding for the department itself.

Government Operations committee  I think the counsel can probably respond more completely to that.

Government Operations committee  Not in this budget. The only ongoing funding that we will be seeking will be for the Cohen commission.

Government Operations committee  In September of 2007 the Prime Minister met with the Prime Minister of Australia, and they actually signed an agreement to do an exchange. I believe the purpose of that was to share best practices and also for career development. Yvan may have more information on why Australia

Government Operations committee  Yes, I do believe so.

Government Operations committee  I should start by saying, as I mentioned earlier, that of the $15 million, which is the increase from the 2009-10 main estimates to the 2010-11 main estimates, $13 million was actually included in our 2009-10 budget because we put it through supplementary estimates. That amount i

Government Operations committee  As I mentioned, the chronic funding pressures were actually identified early in 2009. I'm sorry that I'm not familiar with Mr. McCallum's work, but we have identified, for example, with the PM's tour group, a $1.1 million pressure. That is simply a function of the cost of cargo a

Government Operations committee  Possibly, in part; for example, I think there are many more international trips at this point. The Prime Minister is travelling more in response to the economic situation of the world, so there are more G8 and G20 meetings that he is attending. He has also been pursuing a number

Government Operations committee  I think the way we have internal services organized is probably a very efficient model. One of the things about PCO is that we want to ensure that the deputy secretaries and their staff and analysts have the time and effort to put on the important files of the government. So we h

Government Operations committee  I'm not familiar with even the recommendations. That was in 2005?

Government Operations committee  The counsel may want to make a comment, but as any public servant, we are covered by the code of conduct and the values and ethics code, so we know that we have, as public servants, the ability to go to our senior managers and certainly to our deputy. We also have other avenues t