Information & Ethics committee  Ms. Emmerson had better answer that question, as I am not sure. Which category are the MPs in?

Information & Ethics committee  Actually, Shelley would be best placed to answer that question.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, in fact, I am responsible for the results related to access to information within the department. However, as the commissioner's report states, we are faced with systemic issues. These issues are present pretty much throughout the department. The two main issues are the di

Information & Ethics committee  I just wanted to add that our development program is incentive-oriented, as we recruit people at the PM 01 level. After meeting certain pre-determined objectives set during the training, employees who complete the program successfully are promoted to the PM 04 level. I believe

Information & Ethics committee  We don't recruit from specific training programs, but some programs are available. For instance, the University of Alberta offers access to information training. However, we don't actually recruit from this program. In-service and out-service selection processes are used to recru

Information & Ethics committee  We're talking about a development program. We recruited four people during the first hiring wave. We implemented the development program in April 2010. Initially, we were able to recruit four people under the program. We have just publicly announced a second round of staffing act

Information & Ethics committee  I can't tell you why this program is not used across government. We established the program at Environment Canada because a person must have a solid knowledge of the law in order to become a good access to information officer. That goes for all the departments. The legal side of

Information & Ethics committee  In the case of backlogs, we want our compliance rate, or the percentage of requests we respond to on time, to exceed 85% in the short term. It goes without saying that we would like our compliance rate to reach 100%, but we know that's almost impossible to achieve.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. As a member of the departmental management committee, I have specific objectives regarding targets to be met. As Mr. Hamilton said earlier, these objectives are regularly monitored by the management committee.

Information & Ethics committee  First of all, retaining employees is not really a problem for us. We went through a difficult period in 2007-2008 and 2008-2009, and our struggles are reflected in the report data. Some people retired, and some employees left to work for other departments. This period coincided w

Information & Ethics committee  No, we have not published it, but there is absolutely no reason for us not to. The report has been submitted to Parliament, which means that it's public. We have no objection to posting it online.

Information & Ethics committee  The report has been submitted to Parliament.

Information & Ethics committee  I won't comment on this. I feel that we have met our transparency principle by submitting the report to Parliament.

Information & Ethics committee  Publishing the report online is an approach we could adopt in the future. We have no objection to doing that.