Board commissions and committees
The Board creates committees and commissions and sets out their mandates in order to support and streamline its guidance, planning, monitoring and control activities. These commissions and committees are made up entirely or almost entirely of independent parties. At the end of each meeting, the Board and these commissions and committees hold two closed-door sessions without members of management or observers: one with the President and CEO, and one without them. The composition and mandates for these bodies are reviewed annually. Any work carried out by the commissions and committees is documented in a factual report, which is presented at the next Board meeting. The commission or committee chair gives Board members a summary of the issues discussed.