Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you very much, everyone, for being here.
My questions are for Madame d'Auray first, because of the time constraints you have. I do appreciate your being here. I want to thank you also for your detailed description of who's responsible for what with the communications policy of the federal identity program. That's very helpful. So thank you for that.
I do have a couple of questions. I am being completely upfront. We have had some significant concerns about some of the advertising content looking and feeling a great deal like certain aspects of the Conservative Party. We've had examples of website colours, for example, not only being blue, but out of a million possible choices the exact same pigment as that used by the Conservative Party. We are worried about phrases such as “Harper government”, which appears over 9,000 times in government websites. Having reviewed the communications policy and the FIP, there's nothing in there that suggests the name of the Prime Minister with “government” is a Canadian symbol the way “Government of Canada” is.
I have two questions. For things like that exact pigment of blue for the websites being exactly the same as that of the Conservative Party, the use of the phrase “Harper government”, the decision to have photos galore of the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers—including playing the piano—those decisions, I take it from your description, would come either from cabinet or from cabinet with the approval or direction of the PCO. Is that correct?