Information & Ethics committee  The Commissioner's authority to conduct an investigation on former public office holders is described in the transition provisions of the Federal Accountability Act.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. The commissioner has the power to investigate cases involving people subject to the Conflict of Interest and Post-Employment Code for public office holders. This document is almost certainly the one that preceded the 2004 version. It is not clear, and I should also

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry, I'm not sure either.

Information & Ethics committee  If I could, Mr. Chair, we are actually not subject to that process. There's a provision in the Parliament of Canada Act that designates that the Speaker is the appropriate minister for the purposes of the Financial Administration Act. It also indicates that once the Speaker has s

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct. But we have not been part of that process.

Information & Ethics committee  If I could just put a caveat on that last comment, though, that's assuming steady state. As Mr. Martin was asking earlier, if there were more requests for inquiries, those could, depending on the nature of an inquiry, be more expensive. If we were to be swamped with 20 tomorrow,

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  And the Speaker has.