Information & Ethics committee  I think it depends on the institutions. Some institutions have a problem meeting their 30-day turnaround, that's for sure. We're working with them. They have high-volume requesters, and I believe we need to find solutions. We will often assign some of our own investigators to wor

Information & Ethics committee  My understanding is that the report cards are done by the Treasury Board Secretariat. Our office uses them when we meet with the institutions, because we are interested in how they meet their obligations under the act. My focus in the next year, and my mandate, is going to be tow

Information & Ethics committee  Under the current wording of Bill C-58, the institution will not be allowed to turn that down without our approval.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. We've already put together a preplan for our team to be responsive to those requests. We don't want those to be another reason to delay responding to requests, so we're going to have a special team responding, so the institutions know right away if we approve or not. The c

Information & Ethics committee  Last year, our office received $1.8 million extra for the year, and our plan was to close 1,900 cases. We succeeded with that plan. We finished 1,974 cases in the—

Information & Ethics committee  We started the year with 2,800 cases. We closed 1,900. That means we've ended up with another bigger backlog this year. The problem was that we received the extra funding in December. It's difficult at that point to make decisions on a long-term basis when we don't know if we'r

Information & Ethics committee  Currently, we have 11.

Information & Ethics committee  We have 50 investigators total, 22% are consultants, and we want to increase that to an additional 11 consultants. We only had the one year, so we cannot go and hire employees. We could do it on a term basis. We're going to start a competition soon for new employees, but without

Information & Ethics committee  There are 50.

Information & Ethics committee  It's 93.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it was actually about 45 cases per—

Information & Ethics committee  It takes nine months, on average. Some cases are very short, but other cases take longer.

Information & Ethics committee  I think what you're referring to is the disclosure rates at the institution level. When there is a request of access, the institutions will release 40% of the information and will use exclusions and exemptions to protect most of the information that they are being requested to re

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