Public Accounts committee  Do you think it might not be a bad investment to increase that at some point?

Public Accounts committee  I received a postcard a few weeks ago about cannabis in this country, and that came from the Government of Canada. Revenue Canada sends out things on a regular basis. There are advertisements. It seems to me that even just a small advertisement to people might dramatically increa

Public Accounts committee  I have just one question here, Mr. Chair. The more people go on these websites to bid on these things, the better off we all are in the sense that it would perhaps drive prices. What is being done to advertise that? I appreciate you have 100,000 people, but in a country of wel

Public Accounts committee  Monsieur Berthelette, perhaps you could comment on that, or Monsieur Dompierre. Is it that they're just getting two-thirds of the book value of it? I can appreciate that goods depreciate in value. Are they getting the market value, do you think?

Public Accounts committee  I guess that's one point my colleague Mr. Christopherson was making—the lack of information. Indeed one recommendation with respect to donations, some of the background material, said that 84% of federal organizations rarely or never donate assets. I'm surprised that this is a ne

Public Accounts committee  Is it possible that there might be a liability if there is some problem with the product? Do you think that is part of the hesitation that's taken place over the years?

Public Accounts committee  The idea of recycling or reusing office equipment or other assets is something else that makes a lot of sense. It would be pretty straightforward to—

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much. Thank you to all our witnesses today for your presentations. They were all very insightful and very helpful to this committee. Ms. Lemay, you talked about the disposal of assets. One thing you said in your opening remarks was that we always strive to obtain