Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, we don't really have a need to carry it over. We also have a reserve of $100,000. We think that would be plenty to fulfill our mandate this year.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, that's right.

Information & Ethics committee  If I'm not mistaken, even if the individual is no longer a parliamentarian, we can still pursue the investigation.

Information & Ethics committee  As far as operations go, things can continue on without any issue. It's more the investigations and other things listed in the act that we can't—

Information & Ethics committee  We'd certainly like to have someone in the position, but it's not our decision to make.

Information & Ethics committee  It depends what part of operations. On my end, within my units, everything can continue on right now.

Information & Ethics committee  As far as investigations go, yes, it would certainly be ideal if we had a commissioner.

Information & Ethics committee  We were able to fulfill our mandate last year with a similar budget. We are only asking for a 2% increase this year. We do feel that we can continue to fulfill our mandate this year with this amount.

Information & Ethics committee  The surplus last year was basically due to salary. As I mentioned earlier, over 80% of our budget is for salaries. We had some delays in staffing last year. We had a little bit of a higher turnover rate last year, so we had to fill these vacant positions. That is mostly what ca

Information & Ethics committee  We will continue working, but we can't do anything until we have a commissioner.

Information & Ethics committee  We can't conduct any investigations at this time, but we're doing the preparatory work. We do the research and analysis, but we can't initiate anything until we have a commissioner.

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Exactly.