Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Baird, I read your statement, and one issue that's important to me is the fact that we now prohibit advertising initiatives that have not yet been approved by Parliament. This issue was raised for me as a Canadian, when I was just a private citizen. A few years ago, as I recall, the previous government announced an income-splitting policy that had not yet been approved by Parliament, and it therefore wasn't official government policy. We know that they got into some trouble with the jobs grant, which had not yet been negotiated with provincial governments and employers. I think the ASC slapped them down a little bit, because there were some complaints over there.
I understand the new policy, but in terms of the previous policy, how was it that governments could advertise something that wasn't approved by Parliament? How could they get that approval?