Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I think there is a way to resolve this issue. Ms. Faille could legitimately get the information she wants if it was the content only, with no participants' names. Mr. Chair, I feel that, if we asked the Department of Public Works and Government Services exactly that,

Public Accounts committee  Honestly, Mr. Chairman, I find that a little bit difficult to answer. Well, let me try to broach the question this way. A participant in that GENS consultation might prefer that it not be known to the world at large that he or she participated. In that case, such an individual

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, my understanding is that a member wants the information contained on the audio cassettes. I have no idea what the member intends to do with that information once she has it, whether it should be for public distribution or whether it should be for her own ability to

Public Accounts committee  In my view, Chairman, there is no validity to that line of argument.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, I was literally brought into this file only a few days ago. The document that was handed to me was a copy of a letter addressed by departmental officials on behalf of the Deputy Minister of Public Works and Government Services to your clerk. The operative paragraph

Government Operations committee  Indeed.

Government Operations committee  Madam Chair, raising an ethical issue implies that the Ethics Commissioner puts the complaint he has received and the code that he has to interpret, or that he had at that time, side-by-side. I do not know if we can deduce from that that every aspect of a situation is studied by

Government Operations committee  Madam Chair, I think what Mr. Kramp is referring to is the benefit of economy of parliamentary time, an economy of effort and energy. Within the last few years that has not always been the case. I think the train of events that most members around the table will recall as the mo

Government Operations committee  I think, Madam Chair, the way the questions is phrased, as to what the committee intends to do or wants to do, I would find it rather difficult to answer. The sub judice rule certainly would not apply, in my view, to cases that may perhaps eventually go before the courts. It coul

Government Operations committee  Madam Chair, the lifespan of the existence of the Ethics Commissioner as an entity, under the newest form of the legislation brought in by Bill C-2, is far too short to be able to answer that. There is no real precedent yet. Going beyond that, in an entirely legally based view—w

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chairman, my understanding is that Mr. Schreiber is formally in the custody of Corrections Ontario. He was transferred here on the basis not of release from custody, but simply removal within custody from one part of the province to another. Arrangements were made among Corre

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, the short form of the answer has to be no.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, my understanding is that Sergeant Frizzell, as an experienced police officer, has had to respect all of the statutes and the jurisprudence that deal with police work throughout his career. That's what he's used to and that's what he is bringing, as his custom and ha

Public Accounts committee  If I may just finish that point, there may be some way of accommodating the situation in the sense that the committee may decide to hear this kind of evidence in camera, if the committee—

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, I think Mr. Williams is quite right in the sense that the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act were meant to cover relations between institutions of the executive branch and private individuals. They were not meant to cover relations between institutions of