Government Operations committee  This is a sufficient amount. We won't be coming back. Unless we were going to undertake a new initiative that we currently envision, we won't be coming back for more additional resources for IM and IT.

Government Operations committee  With regard to vulnerabilities associated with our electoral system, there is a variety of both paper-based and electronic systems that are used to carry out elections in Canada, which means there are potential cyber-threats that vary by jurisdiction. It's not just in one place w

Government Operations committee  There's not just PCO involved. The Minister of CIRNA, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, the new department that was created, has a role for non-administrative support to the commission. As you're aware, the department itself did a pre-inquiry process. It went out a

Government Operations committee  I'd like to start by saying two things. We had a preliminary audit that was conducted a few years ago. It identified a number of different opportunities for PCO to undertake in order to stabilize its information management and information technology system. That's a little bit o

Government Operations committee  In terms of our IT modernization process itself, we will be hiring some professional services, people with expertise from the outside. Because it's a large project that took place last year, and for the most part the significant spending is this year, we didn't hire permanent em

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. There are two parts to the question. Was training provided for the system? The system that we used for the legal case management system is called Ringtail. It's a system that we use within government. It was procured for the commission of

Government Operations committee  Yes. We don't determine who gets the training or who uses the software. It will be for the commission to decide which of their people, whether it be two or three or 10 or 12, require the training and who will be using the software. What we do is make sure that they have access to

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The commission of inquiry is different from the regular operations of the Privy Council. The commission of inquiry is set up as an independent commission. The role that PCO plays in that commission is really that of financial administrative support. We very

Government Operations committee  Not specifically. We didn't seek additional resources to do it. When we're working with Canada.ca, the government instituted a process where it centralized all the web service's functions into one area in order to make it more cost-effective for government, so the costs we have r

Government Operations committee  It's NSICOP.

Government Operations committee  The money we have right now is for a couple of things. One, because the NSICOP, the national security and intelligence committee of parliamentarians, hasn't received royal assent, there needed to be a department that could start things going. We have monies associated with salari

Government Operations committee  The reduction is for us to move the money to GAC so they can take our money and contract with the OECD. It's our study. It will be our study. It's not GAC's study. We're just using their mechanisms in order to help us do that. It is our study. It's not connected.

Government Operations committee  About $354,000.

Government Operations committee  It's outsourced to OECD.

Government Operations committee  In terms of your other question with regard to the deputy ministers and the deputy minister committees, I don't know the names, but I can get back to the committee with regard to that.