Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, I'm reluctant to give an exact estimate, but I can tell the committee that it took approximately five of us about three months to go through just the Gomery transcripts and this committee's transcripts, so it's quite a labour-intensive piece of work. Not only do we

Public Accounts committee  I don't believe so. I do think it's important, though, to point out that--I wouldn't call it an analysis--the comparison that has been done was done by the Library of Parliament. The completed document has just been submitted to the law clerks, as this motion indicates, so that t

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, I was just explaining that last week I received a phone call from parliamentary liaison people at Treasury Board Secretariat. At that time I made it very clear to them that this meeting was about the Comptroller General--his role in issues like expenditure managemen

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I believe these amounts will all be recorded in the Public Accounts of Canada in an aggregate, but to break them down into individual payments would result in a Public Accounts of Canada that would be about a foot thick. Mr. Williams mentioned privacy concerns, but thi

Public Accounts committee  We have some names from Public Works.

Public Accounts committee  They can speak to whether or not this was a contract or....

Public Accounts committee  You might want more than an hour, then, Mr. Chair.

Public Accounts committee  My name is Brian O'Neal.