Government Operations committee  I'm not sure. If you look at it, some of the cases before the Competition Tribunal deal with mergers and that type of information....

Government Operations committee  Perhaps. I'm really not....

Government Operations committee  I don't particularly, no.

Government Operations committee  As soon as a case comes before the tribunal, we operate under the open court principle. That said, there are provisions within our rules and regulations to have confidentiality agreements and not to hold the hearings in public. It is part of our rules.

Government Operations committee  From my perspective—and if I look at some comparisons—it was established within the act the same way that the Human Rights Commission and Human Rights Tribunal were established.... I don't see it as a—

Government Operations committee  No, I don't think there is a conflict.

Government Operations committee  With tribunals, of course, it's based on their enabling legislation. It's the Competition Tribunal, so the law is completely different and the rules are completely different. Most of the applications come through the office of the commissioner of competition. We do have certain a

Government Operations committee  I'm sure that we would be able to apply whatever changes to the legislation that Parliament decides to give us. When the act was put into place in 2007, without knowing what would be coming before the tribunal we had a structure of about 15 FTEs. Right now it's minimal. There's m

Government Operations committee  No. It's usually the party.

Government Operations committee  No. It isn't. Our office is quite small and I actually manage two tribunals.

Government Operations committee  Per year? We've received seven.

Government Operations committee  We've received seven—

Government Operations committee  Since the beginning of the legislation.

Government Operations committee  It's about one per year.

Government Operations committee  It's a difficult question for the tribunal to be able to answer. As you know, we tend to remain neutral as to what comes to our office. Our members deal with the cases that are brought before them.