Citizenship and Immigration committee  Who is the agency on the record, please?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Stop the clock, please, Mr. Chair.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Can I please have the agency on record?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  So absolutely no money was spent in mainstream media. Is that correct?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Could I have the agency on the record, please?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Did that go through your colleague, the Minister of Public Works and Government Services, or was that spent directly from the department?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Minister, I have an e-mail from a newspaper. My questions to him were: Further to our telephone conversation for the Immigration advertisement newspaper backlog. Media Marketing asked that you charge the government the highest rate you have which is $1500 per page. You have media cards which range from $500 to $1000 per page.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Minister, it's your department that asked Public Works to advertise.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Why is the agency on the record charging higher than normal? Why is the agency on the record suggesting to people to charge higher than normal?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What would you do about this, Minister? There's evidence here. There's all kinds of advertising. I'm sure other newspapers were probably encouraged to do the same thing. What is your department and what are you personally going to do about this?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  --my question is to the minister. My question is, why, and what are you going to do about it, Minister?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Chair, with all due respect, I've asked the minister. I made her aware. I tabled it in the House. The ads are here, and I can certainly give them to the minister. My question is to the minister: what is she going to do about it? Is she going to talk to her colleague, and, if so, will she follow up?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, what I'm hearing is that the minister wants to slide away on this. She absolutely doesn't want to make a commitment to follow this up.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  These are the ads you're buying, Minister, in the ethnic presses.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Are these the ads?