Government Operations committee  The $1.4 million is virtually all associated with the EAP website, and the majority of the expenditure is associated with the small team that runs the thing. The intent of the EAP website is to allow for effective, efficient delivery of information about a wide variety of program

Government Operations committee  The EAP website was stood up in 2009–10. I can get precise figures to the committee, if that's your wish. I can indicate to you, though, that when it was first stood up, in the first year, it would have been slightly higher than the figure now, because the website was being estab

Government Operations committee  It certainly does for the EAP website. As it came up in earlier questions, though, other strands of expenditures tie to EAP. For example, the EAP advertising is a separate component, and money has been allocated to departments, under that strand, for EAP advertising. In terms o

Government Operations committee  Yes, I'd be happy to. As you alluded, it's an attempt to consolidate and integrate information about programs, services, and initiatives that would otherwise be scattered across the government, to put it in one spot for citizens so they can effectively do one-stop shopping. We'r

Government Operations committee  The PCO role in advertising is set out in the policy. Ultimately, at the end of the day, for the government set-aside it's a cabinet decision in terms of priorities. But to get there, we gather suggestions from around the government. In any given year, there could be departments

Government Operations committee  The actual decision about programs and the frame of the content is ultimately a cabinet decision. But in terms of the details of how that looks in any given advertising campaign, sure, we give advice. We give advice on the full range of communication matters that the Government o

Government Operations committee  No, it's unrelated. Let me explain the context. Almost all of the $1.4 million is actually for the EAP website. It's not related to the television advertising component at all. It's for a small team that basically runs this website. The objective there is to try to—

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My apologies. There were a number of elements to the question. I'm going to try to cover them all, and if I miss anything, please circle back. First of all, in terms of the overall responsibilities around Government of Canada advertising, as you are pro

Government Operations committee  Sure.

Government Operations committee  The website is the focus of the supplementary (B) request, and it represents an effort on the part of PCO to coordinate government communications on the initiatives related to the economic action plan. To do that, we need a small team to knit together information on more than 275