Information & Ethics committee  Correct.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, if I may, I'd make a slight correction. In respect to access to information, the minister has delegated an official within her department so no one in the minister's office is responsible for access to information inquiries.

Information & Ethics committee  In respect to media inquiries, I would certainly coordinate and complement what the department would be doing, absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I did not. No.

Information & Ethics committee  We did not have actual costs or the frequency of the ads. That was the media inquiry and we did not have that information at the time. No.

Information & Ethics committee  I wanted to provide accurate figures,and there were no accurate figures available at the time.

Information & Ethics committee  As I previously stated, I spoke to the assistant deputy minister responsible for communications. I informed him of my decision and the rationale, and it was agreed upon that that was what we were going to, that was his decision going forward.

Information & Ethics committee  I disagree. We provided an accurate response with accurate figures in a timely manner.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, with all due respect, I don't think the issue is who I've spoken to in issues management, but rather that I am the minister's director of communications, and I ultimately take responsibility on behalf of the minister for communications in the department of HRSDC.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, the issue is that it was my decision.

Information & Ethics committee  I made the decision--

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.