Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. We have put together a small table regarding the $3.9 million we are discussing today which shows where we are spending the money. I can give you that document if it might help.

Government Operations committee  Of course, we had to prepare some information on these matters to submit to the government. As Mrs. MacPherson explained, in order to get the money, it was necessary to talk to Treasury Board officials and convince them that there was a need for the money. There is the material

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the question. Mr. Chair, I believe the website was launched earlier this year—I don't have the exact timeline in front of me—with fairly basic information. When the decision was made to try to have a more coordinated approach to communicating with the pub

Government Operations committee  The total is 19.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I believe I have a couple of students working for us, and they would be hired through the casual or the FSWEP program or an existing standard government process, like a summer-student type thing.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I think that's true. And as I mentioned earlier, the amount of money actually in the total budget we have for survey work and so on is actually relatively modest. It's about $200,000. For example, of what you'd call the operating money I would have related to the web

Government Operations committee  That would be through the standard process we go through to engage companies like that.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, there is an existing requirement, which government ministries follow, that after six months, information... I'll have to get back to the committee specifically if there's an interest in this, but we have already provided to the committee a number of the research studie