Information & Ethics committee  Both British Columbia and Alberta have the ability to issue administrative monetary penalties. I think when you're looking at administrative monetary penalties, it's more about trying to correct behaviours than about penalizing things. That's when you get into the courts. It's a

Information & Ethics committee  Media monitoring, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Okay.

Information & Ethics committee  When an allegation is brought to my attention, I look at the situation first. I can verify, for example, whether a number is different. I must first look at each event and verify whether lobbyists are present. If they aren't, I look at the case more superficially. Strictly speak

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. The registry of lobbyists was established before I arrived. When I became the commissioner, I resumed certain administrative reviews and some investigations. My successor will do the same thing. He or she will resume and finish the cases in progress and make the necessary de

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  No. As I think I've explained the process before in committee, when a matter comes to my attention, whether it's something we have found in the office through media monitoring or a complaint, we'll look into the matter first and do an assessment as to whether it actually falls w

Information & Ethics committee  I can't remember exactly how many are open, but I can get back to you if you would like.

Information & Ethics committee  I do, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, what I can say is what I said about its being a well established office. There is a director of investigations with four senior investigators and a compliance officer working. Those individuals will still be around and carrying out the work. They have the highest profession

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry. Could you repeat the question?

Information & Ethics committee  As I said before, when I was here at the last meeting I was asked whether I was looking into the situation, and I confirmed that I was. Because the act requires that I look at these in private, I'm not able to comment further on how we're looking at them, but I can assure the com

Information & Ethics committee  There have been a number of events.... First of all, as Commissioner of Lobbying, to proceed further I need to determine whether lobbyists were actually present at any of the events. I think that would be a fair answer to your question. There has to have been a lobbyist present a

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry. If I may...?

Information & Ethics committee  To get at your question of sufficient resources in looking at estimates, as shown on the website, we do triage files when proceeding to make sure that things that are considered a priority are dealt with.