Government Operations committee  I have no knowledge of that. I can't help you out. We can bring the question back and try to find the information for you, but I'm not in a position to answer that question. I'm sorry.

Government Operations committee  No. We exchange information and best practices and issues that we're facing, looking for suggestions from other organizations. There are a number of formal and informal forums where that occurs. Sometimes we go out looking for information and sometimes organizations, other OGDs,

Government Operations committee  Not to my knowledge.

Government Operations committee  My pleasure.

Government Operations committee  The full-time employees currently have a great deal of work. For the time being, we don't see anything that might have a negative impact on full-time employees. The agency continues to come up with ways of increasing the work for the tax centres, given their capacity. The tax c

Government Operations committee  Between 75% and 80% of the agency's budget is earmarked for salaries. Operating and maintenance costs represent a small portion of the agency's total budget.

Government Operations committee  That issue does not influence us one way or another.

Government Operations committee  No. Our employees work in offices. But many of them are on the road or use a company space when they do their audits. We do of course have to maintain the office, but as far as I can recall, that problem has not been raised at the agency.

Government Operations committee  We will make note of that and report it.

Government Operations committee  It is too late for this fiscal year, but we will make note of it for next year.

Government Operations committee  Oh, my gosh. Sudbury is a very large operation, but I'm not sure of the overall numbers. Do we have the numbers by office with us?

Government Operations committee  Sudbury is a pretty large operation. My guess it would be 1,500, 1,600, or 1,800 full-time employees, depending on the point of year.

Government Operations committee  In Sudbury, yes.

Government Operations committee  I'd have to look at the numbers; I really don't know. Our four big offices are in Toronto. We have a pretty large office in Hamilton as well. And the Ottawa office--the tax services office, not the headquarters--is a fair size. We also have significant numbers at the Ottawa tech

Government Operations committee  We have not opened new offices in years, with the exception of the offices we inherited and agreed to keep open when there was the harmonized sales tax with three of the four Atlantic provinces. Many of our offices are in smaller locations. We have an office in Prince George, B