Public Accounts committee  Thank God, I was not at the Office at the time. Consequently, I do not really know what took place, apart from, like you, what I read in the press. It would be totally inappropriate to make a judgment on issues that I am not at all familiar with.

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely. If you indeed look at the act--I'm going to ask my colleague to give me her assistance--you see that our own investigations are confidential. It says clearly that they are confidential. And yet there is a second paragraph in relation to our investigations that reads:

Public Accounts committee  Essentially everything that we gather to--

Public Accounts committee  Well, because there is sensitive personal information, it by nature--

Public Accounts committee  The definition of public interest of course rests with the committee. There are parameters that should guide us. Those parameters include, for example, the consideration of harm to a person, the consideration of health and safety, and so on. There are parameters put in place. Wh

Public Accounts committee  Yes. We applaud that decision.

Public Accounts committee  That is certainly the conclusion we draw from that decision.

Public Accounts committee  Indeed, I wonder whether the copy I made my presentation from is the same as the one distributed to Members.

Public Accounts committee  There is a paragraph missing in my copy. My apologies. I would imagine this happened during the merging of the French and English passages. I will refer to the copy you have. The paragraph that begins: “In relation to section 8(2)(c), we recognize Parliament’s authority …” is cru

Public Accounts committee  I would be quite happy to have the discussion in public session.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you Mister Chair. Thank you for inviting me to appear before the Committee on its study of the Office of the Auditor General’s report on the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada. First of all, my apologies on behalf of the Privacy Commissioner as she is ill an

Information & Ethics committee  I believe I will simply summarize by again saying that I applaud this committee for addressing this issue. It is highly topical, and I believe we need to be seized of the privacy considerations toward open government to ensure that as we further the goals of transparency, we stil

Information & Ethics committee  I will do that with pleasure.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have any study in mind specifically. We would be happy to get back to you on that. Of course, each country has different contexts. There was a specific case that you will remember, the debacle of the British MPs' expenses. What was interesting was that the decision on wha