Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Do you mean proposed section 6?

Information & Ethics committee  Proposed section 6, which was asking for the subject matter, the timelines...?

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. That disposition has been removed.

Information & Ethics committee  Actually, there have been about 30 amendments made.

Information & Ethics committee  We have 3,500 old complaints right now in the backlog and in the inventory.

Information & Ethics committee  Right now, with the $3 million extra that we have, we are floating just equally with what we have coming in and what we are finishing. I'm receiving about 2,500 complaints a year and this year we closed 2,600.

Information & Ethics committee  Plus $3 million.

Information & Ethics committee  It keeps going up. From 2014 to date, we started with 1,700 complaints a year, and now we're at about 2,400 to 2,500 a year.

Information & Ethics committee  It's very difficult to know. My office calculated we would need approximately $9 million in one year to hire all the investigators necessary to get rid of the backlog. Even if we were to do that, the institutions would not be able to absorb the extra workload. We need a continu

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members. I am pleased to be here with you today. As you said, Mr. Chair, I am joined by France Labine and Layla Michaud. I now have 15 months under my belt as the new Information Commissioner, and at this point in my mandate, I see very positi

Information & Ethics committee  Unfortunately, given how long it currently takes to process a complaint, I'm sure complainants are happy to receive a response. However, since they don't obtain the response until a year and a half or two years later, the information or records received may not be as relevant. My

Information & Ethics committee  We do that, of course, but it's unfortunate. I don't want things to get to that point. I don't want to have to call complainants to ask whether they still want the information in question since they asked for it eight months ago. I'd like us to be able to call the complainant im

Information & Ethics committee  It's interesting because technology is at a lot of different levels, and it could be as easy as.... I was surprised when I started my new position that I had only one screen in my office. I was used to using two screens and people were questioning me. However, when you do a paper

Information & Ethics committee  It's a bit of both. We realized that certain investigators were more compatible with certain institutions or complainants. In those cases, it's not even an issue. Those investigators are assigned the complaints and files from the corresponding individuals. We explored the idea o