Information & Ethics committee  There's been a little bit of an increase with respect to PIPEDA this year, over the 12-month period, but for the most part it's stabilized—and likewise for both acts.

Information & Ethics committee  The point I was trying to make is that the organization with respect to the two pieces of legislation, specifically PIPEDA, had not yet matured in terms of the implementation of that legislation. There was no certainty that the resource bases that were there at that timeframe cou

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. The internal audit is the policy that was revamped because of the Federal Accountability Act, and with that, all departments and agencies had to put in place an internal audit program. Internal audit, by definition, is a process where one looks at its internal operations.

Information & Ethics committee  The predominant change with respect to the Federal Accountability Act was the establishment of an ATIP office for the very first time. We were subject to our own act as well as being subject to the Access to Information Act. There was also some concern about the increased coverag

Information & Ethics committee  The history of the organization over the last four or five years has been one of going back to the Radwanski scandal of 2003. There has been a significant amount of effort over the last number of years to rebuild the office. A lot of resources have gone to that. At the same time

Information & Ethics committee  The significant progress that's been made to date would stop and an increased level of backlog would occur again when they could add. A lot of progress has been made, and that would all stop.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. In the case of an officer of Parliament, I think in 2005 they put in place what's called a House of Commons Advisory Panel on the Funding and Oversight of Officers of Parliament to allow an officer of Parliament not to have to interact exclusively with the government with

Information & Ethics committee  Theoretically I guess the answer to that question is yes. At that point, presumably, we've got the views of the parliamentary panel. But Treasury Board Secretariat has the right to modify that submission as we drafted it and asked for it to be presented. It has to be signed off b

Information & Ethics committee  Since 2005, we've gone to the panel twice with respect to an increase in our budget. Both times it was with Treasury Board Secretariat support, both times the panel recommended it to the ministers, and both times it was successful.

Information & Ethics committee  It was identified as a pilot and it still is a pilot, to my knowledge.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm the director general of corporate services and the chief financial officer with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. With me today is Lisa Campbell, general counsel for the OPC. The Privacy Commissioner apologizes for not being able to attend today. We are here to discuss

Information & Ethics committee  Sure, we can do both. We can get you that table. We don't have it with us today, but we certainly can undertake to get that table to show you that information over the last five years. The backlog as it stands at the end of January is 373 files under the Privacy Act and 322 unde

Information & Ethics committee  That would constitute or relate back to your lapse. All government departments and agencies are allowed to carry forward 5% from one year to the next year.

Information & Ethics committee  That's right.

Information & Ethics committee  Some people refer to that as a lapse from one year, when actually it becomes automatically a carry forward to the next year.