Information & Ethics committee  Stationery is in there, but also you have magazines and periodicals, books and publications.

Information & Ethics committee  Nothing. We don't pay for the utilities.

Information & Ethics committee  It's a standard label: utilities, materials, and supplies. It's a label for what's called a “standard object”, as in item 7. It's used across the board. So if we had responsibility for utilities, which we don't, it would be here.

Information & Ethics committee  That's right.

Information & Ethics committee  They're not currently reflected. There are multiple sources of information within our reports on plans and priorities. In one of the financial tables, you'll see the amount related to the Federal Accountability Act. On page 7 of the report on plans and priorities, it's identifi

Information & Ethics committee  That's right. It's not currently part of the estimates before you today.

Information & Ethics committee  To have those added to our appropriation, we must present a Treasury Board submission. Before we do that, of course, we would present a business case to the new all-party parliamentary panel to get their blessing, and then we'd bring that to Treasury Board through a Treasury Boar

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  To the Privacy Commissioner.

Information & Ethics committee  I think there's a theoretical, if not a practical, link between me and the Comptroller General.

Information & Ethics committee  Unlike many other government departments and agencies, the Privacy Commissioner, being an officer of Parliament, has a somewhat unique role with Parliament that differs from that of a departmental head.

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of an internal audit capacity, but in terms of our audited financial statements, it is the Auditor General who does our audits.

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.