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SECTION III – SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Organizational Information

The Tribunal is composed of not more than six judicial members and not more than eight non-judicial members. Non-judicial members have backgrounds in economics, business, accounting, marketing and other relevant fields. Figure 1 shows the Tribunal’s organiz­ational structure.

The Governor in Council appoints judicial members, on the recommendation of the Minister of Justice, from among the judges of the Federal Court, Trial Division, and designates one of the judicial members as Chairperson of the Tribunal. The Governor in Council appoints non-judicial members on the recommendation of the Minister of Industry. Appointments are for a fixed term not exceeding seven years; members may be re-appointed.

The Registry has been designated a department for the purposes of the Financial Administration Act, with the Minister of Industry as its minister and the Registrar as the deputy head. The Registry has 14 full-time employees and provides all necessary administrative support required by the Tribunal for the hearing and disposition of all applications. The Registry responds to all requests for information by the legal community, researchers and the public on the status of cases, the Competition Tribunal Rules and its case law.

Figure 1: Organizational Structure

Departmental Planned Spending and Full Time Equivalents

The Registry of the Competition Tribunal is a small single service line organization, and as such, the spending trends are very stable as reflected by the following table.

Table 1: Departmental Planned Spending and Full Time Equivalents

To be consistent with the Government efforts to develop its priorities and leading to a new budget, departments have been directed to repeat 2006-2007 Main Estimate amounts in the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 periods -- this table reflects that direction.

($ thousands)	Forecast Spending 2005–2006	Planned Spending 2006–2007	Planned Spending 2007–2008	Planned Spending 2008–2009
Budgetary Main Estimates	1,679	1,686	1,686	1,686
Less: Respendable revenue	-	-	-	-
Total Main Estimates	1,679	1,686	1,686	1,686
Adjustments1	74	-	-	-
Net Planned Spending2	1,753	1,686	1,686	1,686
Plus: Cost of services received without charge	480	523	523	523
Net Cost of Program	2,233	2,209	2,209	2,209
Full-Time Equivalents	14	14	14	14

¹ This amount is the 5% carry forward of $73,500

² Reflects the best forecast of total net planned spending to the end of the fiscal year.

Table 2: Net Cost of Department for the Estimates Year 2006-2007

($ thousands)	Total
Net Planned Spending	1,686
Plus: Services Received without Charge
Accommodation provided by Public Works and Government Services Canada	459
insurance premiums and expenditures paid by Treasury Board Secretariat	64
Workers’ compensation coverage provided by Human Resources Development Canada	-
Salary and associated expenditures of legal services provided by Justice Canada	-
2006–2007 Net Cost of Program	2,209

 

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