Government Operations committee  For departments who want to use that kind of tool in announcements, PWGSC has a sample cheque that can be used.

Government Operations committee  And they were not prepared by Government of Canada institutions.

Government Operations committee  My role is to ensure compliance with the Communications Policy of the Government of Canada and the Federal Identity Program Policy. I must ensure that ads—

Government Operations committee  No. The policy dictates the procedure to follow for advertisements.

Government Operations committee  No, it does not.

Government Operations committee  The approval procedure is not set out in the Federal Identity Program Policy.

Government Operations committee  The government communications policy.

Government Operations committee  The policy you refer to governs the use of the three symbols. It sets out how documents must be identified. So it targets document identification. Every Government of Canada news release prepared by a department contains two things—

Government Operations committee  You are talking about the Federal Identity Program Policy.

Government Operations committee  That policy covers how documents must be identified.

Government Operations committee  It does not govern the content of a document, but rather how it is identified. You will notice that every news release issued by the public service or by a federal department is subject to the Communications Policy of the Government of Canada and the Federal Identity Program Poli

Government Operations committee  Yes, but there is nothing in either one of those policies that governs what a document can say, from a content standpoint.

Government Operations committee  There's nothing in the communications policy or the FIP policy that either prescribes or prohibits the use of any language or words, and the identifier you're talking about in FIP is the FIP signature, which is the—

Government Operations committee  It's in the text of a news release; it's not in the identifier of the news release. All of our news releases have an identifier, and the identifier is the FIP signature, which is at the top of the document. It's the flag, with the signature of the department or the Government of

Government Operations committee  Yes.