Government Operations committee  Well, I think the intention of having the social media links—

Government Operations committee  The actual signage, Madam Chair, is the responsibility of the individual department. We provide guidance as to when it's appropriate to have a sign, the kind of sign you'd use, and so on, but the actual expenditure is done in the context of the expenditures the individual departm

Government Operations committee  Well, essentially--

Government Operations committee  Essentially, the rule of thumb would be that if it's on the economic action plan website--if you visit the website and it's on the map--that would be the type of project that would have a sign. It would be a project that would have a fixed location--for example, an infrastructure

Government Operations committee  So far, to date, the expenditure has been roughly $34 million for advertising of the economic action plan.

Government Operations committee  We're managing the website on a very low budget. I have four staff who actually manage it. There is no formal budget for the website. We spent a small amount of money on some market research to focus groups to just see what people think of the website and to try to improve its fu

Government Operations committee  The total cost of the campaign for the home renovation tax credit is $7 million. That includes print advertising in magazines, some advertising on the Internet, television advertising, obviously, which a number of members may have seen, as well an attempt to have, at least for th

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. As I mentioned earlier to the committee, the actual cost of signage is absorbed in the program budgets of individual departments, so we don't have that specific information handy. The Privy Council Office has given guidance to departments to ensure that t

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

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  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.