Government Operations committee  The rules of engagement are for all public servants, and PCO is no different in this regard, and they are governed by how materials or conversations are classified. So whether they are not sensitive, whether they're somewhat sensitive, whether they're pretty sensitive, or whether

Government Operations committee  —but somebody has to pull all of the pieces of the picture together for the national security advisor.

Government Operations committee  As much as I'd like to be able to give you the technical explanation that I understand you are looking for, I'm not qualified to do that. I have folks who do that for me. However, appearing before you after me are the folks from Shared Services Canada who are much more knowledge

Government Operations committee  Yes, it does.

Government Operations committee  On the subject of the e-mails to which you refer, I will begin by saying something I said before, which is that it's the mandate of the Privy Council Office to provide professional non-partisan advice and support to the government. It's not our job to provide advice on personal

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I'm going to start with a short overview and then I'm going to ask Ms. Cahill to talk a bit about our expenditures. At the Privy Council Office, because we have no programs, we tend to travel a bit less than some of the other departments in town. We have some folks wh

Government Operations committee  Justifying the need for a coordinating role is always interesting and I think what it does is it.... My first response to you would be that when we're engaged in work about which we are passionate, work that matters.... So if you're in the department of immigration and citizens

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I will start by picking up on my answer to the previous member's question about records management practices. To summarize what I was trying to say—I'm not sure I did that effectively—there are rules for records management. Whether you're an employee

Government Operations committee  We have backup copies for 30 days, and at the end of 30 days, the backup copies are not there.

Government Operations committee  The 30-day period to which I spoke is not related to the rules on records management. The 30-day period to which I spoke is related to the backup capacity requirement for the Government of Canada to assist in disaster recovery, or business continuity.

Government Operations committee  One of the key roles of the Privy Council Office is to provide coordination across government, and that is the reason that Mr. Elcock is nested within the Privy Council Office and he reports to the national security advisor to the Prime Minister. In addition to his role of provid

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Chair. I can assure you that the Privy Council Office is not excluded from the Access to Information Act. First of all, I think it is important to appreciate that, based on the non-partisan nature of the public service, departments and minister

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. As I was saying before, on the public service side, in fact, we do follow the laws and legislation that tell us what records to keep. Everybody has guidelines to follow. I believe that the question was, when staff leave do we have a policy of deleting

Government Operations committee  —subject to the application of our records management rules and guidelines, which we follow, and—

Government Operations committee  Pardon me?