Government Operations committee  —having such a large number of billboards, no, not at all.

Government Operations committee  Madam Chair, there's no specific overall dollar figure. There are two things here. One is with regard to additional spending. There is a plan to do some additional spending on advertising this fiscal year. I don't have the specific amount available. It's relatively small in ter

Government Operations committee  I believe that is possible. We'll have to compile the material because it's not a single document. There's a number of studies in different departments. We can get back to the committee with that.

Government Operations committee  For the research that has been done, I think that sounds fine.

Government Operations committee  We could certainly get back to the committee. I have a piece of paper; unfortunately it's only in one official language at the moment. But this is the breakdown: finance spending on the economic action plan—this was for two phases of work in June and September-October of this yea

Government Operations committee  My colleague has noted as well, just for clarity, that signage is in departmental budgets, but for the advertising proper--television, radio, and so on--that's $34 million. There will be some additional spending this year. I believe it's in the order--

Government Operations committee  No. This is just for advertising, not signage. Signage would be in departmental program budgets.

Government Operations committee  Not for signage, ma'am, no.

Government Operations committee  Thanks for the question. Regarding the issue of door hangers, there were 3.5 million of those produced and, just for a bit of precision, in general they were distributed to houses that were older than 15 years, houses where the judgment would be that there would be a greater lik

Government Operations committee  That's right.

Government Operations committee  It would probably be a direct marketing firm that would be engaged for that, but I would have to get back to the committee with the details.

Government Operations committee  With regard to the website, as the honourable member said, it's absolutely true that there are elements of the site that were not compliant with the common look and feel standard. That relates primarily to the technology being used for the site, such as Google Maps. We had been

Government Operations committee  On your third question, I think the secretary was going to respond.

Government Operations committee  I will have to return to the committee with the specifics, but certainly past infrastructure programs.... Perhaps the secretary would have more specific comments.

Government Operations committee  As the Clerk of the Privy Council had mentioned earlier, the government's decision to include the links to the social media sites were in recognition of the extensive use of social media sites by younger Canadians. I think the opposition and others have raised concerns, and so th