Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that.
I will just reference my friend across the way, Mr. Regan, who was talking about the amount spent on H1N1. Obviously it was far more than the amount he indicated.
We on the government side do believe there is an essential responsibility of government to step in, to assist, to ensure there are lives saved. When we think of the H1N1 development, there was a necessity for government to step in to ensure that Canadians were prepared for the impending problems that would come as a result of the flu, and we obviously see the benefits of that. Canadians were well prepared and many Canadians who may have been infected were otherwise spared that situation.
He belittles the investment we made to ensure Canadians are aware of the economic action plan. While it's essential for government to help spare the lives of Canadians, it's also a responsibility of government to help spare the livelihoods of Canadians, to ensure their families have an income, to ensure people have access to jobs and an opportunity to take advantage of the measures that the Canadian government is bringing forward with regard to different tax savings and different training opportunities Canadians have in general. If we were to reference the different ads that were brought—obviously television is one, probably the one that we most often reference in our minds—was there a program designed to link Canadians from one medium to another?
I often think that television is simply the most obvious reminder to Canadians that they should look further. With common branding, when they go to a government website, they see there is an economic action symbol and it would reference back to the television ad. Then by going on the Internet, they would be able to find how they would actually get the individual services provided. Was that linkage there? Is there a common effort to ensure that people can follow the advertising or the common themes to where they might actually be able to take advantage of the opportunities government is providing for individuals?