Funding Officers of Parliament.
By Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date: 2005-09-22
- Genre: Law
Description
The Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics began hearings in the fall of 2004 on the Estimates of the three Officers of Parliament who fall within its mandate--the Information and Privacy Commissioners of Canada, and the Ethics Commissioner. The Committee's mandate includes matters related to the reports of these three Commissioners (the Ethics Commissioner primarily with respect to his responsibilities under the Parliament of Canada Act relating to public office holders) and to reports tabled pursuant to the Lobbyists Registration Act. The details of its mandate are set out in section 108(3)(h) of the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. This article looks at the background to the issue of funding Officers of Parliament, the views of several parliamentary officers and others who appeared before the Committee, various funding models that were considered, the recommendations of the Committee in its report tabled in May 2005 and some reaction to that report. **********
