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April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee Yes, but that constitutes only a very small part of my work.
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee In a word, no, I don't think so. My mandate generally covers issues relating to conflict of interest. It is a fairly narrow mandate.
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee That is an interesting point, because the word “ethics” almost never appears in the Act, except in my title and with my name. It is mentioned only in the Act of Parliament, which states that I may advise the Prime Minister when he asks for such advice on a range of limited issues, and also on ethics.
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee It hasn't to date. Mind you, I've only been in the job for nine months. Inquiries or examinations are part of the work of our office, but it's only a small part of that work. A large part of the work of our office is administering the annual reports and answering inquiries from the general public.
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee It's things such as, “Should I accept this gift?”, or “Should I accept this invitation to speak here?”, or “Is it a problem that I'm a member of this board?”—things like that.
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee Yes, and those are the things I'm hoping to get guidelines on, gradually. But as I say, I want them to be right; I don't want to have false starts with my guidelines.
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee There doesn't seem to be. I'm, in a way, a single window for a number of people. But in fact we have different systems, so that if a question comes in that obviously shouldn't have been directed to our office, we will, within a couple of days.... There's a certain portion of my staff who will either say there's no way this should have come in, or if we can, we'll help them and say, maybe this should have gone to the Privacy Commissioner, or maybe it should have gone somewhere else.
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee I did understand your question, but—
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee Yes, two of the three reports.
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee Are you asking what the differences are between then and now?
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee Yes, I believe we are in the midst of structural change. However, the Office is not that different from what it was before.
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee Yes, we are.
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson
Information & Ethics committee I am not sure I have understood your question properly.
April 10th, 2008Committee meeting
Mary Elizabeth Dawson