Yes, Mr. Chair. Thanks.
There are expenditures for advertising and communications, and these are standard expenditures across government.
On the question of whether there was good value for money, or money well spent, those kinds of exercises usually occur after the fact, when you go through some type of program evaluation. And indeed, that may be the case.
But a lot of communications and advertising is coordinated centrally, as my colleague Mr. Martin said, to describe certain issues or platforms to Canadians.