[1] The committee is supported by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, its administrative branch and a department within the government itself.
The Canadian Cabinet is arranged into several committees with varying responsibilities, but all other ones are informal structures and frequently change.
Currently organized under the Financial Administration Act,[2] the Treasury Board is the only one created by law and is officially a committee of the Privy Council.
Its role in government makes it far more powerful than most Cabinet committees as it is responsible for "accountability and ethics, financial, personnel and administrative management, comptrollership, approving regulations and most Orders-in-Council".
As the principal employer of the Government of Canada, it is responsible for labour relations, collective bargaining, and pension and benefits across the core public administration.