The communications policy, like the Accountability Act, clearly states that deputy ministers are responsible for putting in place all the necessary control and monitoring measures to ensure that the government's policies are complied with and that the initiatives and activities of their departments and agencies are consistent with those policies. So they have control measures for following up on financial controls, for human resources controls. In communications, a good part of those controls are the responsibility of the communication function, that is a communications branch in their department or agency, and the terms and conditions of operation are very clearly prescribed in the communications policy. As I mentioned earlier, we're going to provide the clerk of the committee with the hyperlink. You'll see that there are indeed 31 clearly established directives that provide for the use and control and monitoring mechanisms that a department must put in place within its organization.
So the deputy ministers have at least a fairly precise guideline. We also define the role of a communications director or director general within a department, what the follow-up audit mechanisms are for the exchanges necessary for approvals, and so on. So it's quite clearly established so that the deputy ministers can perform their duties and their responsibilities.