Information & Ethics committee  You mean how much money I want?

Information & Ethics committee  We don't know. We're just starting to look at numbers, and we think it's going to be over $3 million.

Information & Ethics committee  We got $3 million to hire 25 people. I will need at least another 25, so a minimum $3 million, but that doesn't pay for my corporate services to support these people and the translation bureau that we need to publish more reports and publish more guidelines. All of this has to

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  I would say that part 2 of the act, which provides proactive disclosure.... It's mandatory legislative proactive disclosure. It used to be a policy. It was followed by all of the ministers' offices, so it didn't really change anything. This information was usually proactively pro

Information & Ethics committee  It has really helped. We have used it over 40 times. What helps is to tell the institutions that we are about to order disclosure. Sometimes that has really helped discussions and compliance with the act, without having recourse to issuing an order. The other thing that has rea

Information & Ethics committee  The challenge is that we don't have, right now, a declassification program. In those cases we were talking about earlier, sometimes historical national security documents are still classified as secret or top secret and the process of going through an access request when those do

Information & Ethics committee  It allowed me to finally hire about 25 new investigators full time instead of having consultants and letting them go at the end of the year. We now have retention plans and development plans, so we have a bigger group of investigators dealing with our cases.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, we do. The act that governs my office doesn't specifically give me that authority, unlike the act governing the Privacy Commissioner, for example, which gives him a mandate to educate on that issue, but I do it anyway, because I feel it's important. That's one of the reason

Information & Ethics committee  We have to refer it to the Attorney General.

Information & Ethics committee  I probably don't have any complaints against them, so I wouldn't be able to tell you. We know which ones are not doing well, but at the same time, having a number of complaints—

Information & Ethics committee  In my annual report every year, we list the top 10 or 20 institutions. Most of the time, it's the same ones: IRCC, CBSA, RCMP, CRA, PCO and Library and Archives. The number of complaints are usually at the highest. Whether or not they are well founded is a different subject. I c

Information & Ethics committee  I know that IRCC is really investing in their technology to provide more information and in changing the system, such as the portal they have on their site, but I think that plan of action is on a three-year term because of the amount of work that needs to be done. We still haven

Information & Ethics committee  I know that TBS is using best practices, and they're sharing with all of the institutions, but like anything else, we're pretty much on our own. Even in my office we have our own access unit, because I'm subjected to the act as well. At one point.... It's really difficult to wo