Government Operations committee  Yes, absolutely.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Chair. The $3.3 million comprises a couple of things. It's money that we would have talked about in our estimates last year. It's not new money that we're getting. It's money that's continuing from the increase that we would have received last year. It relates to thr

Government Operations committee  We look at topics that would be—

Government Operations committee  Who...? It would be related to our assistant secretary for communications, who would work in conjunction within the department, as well as within our Prime Minister's Office. We also have $1.2 million, which was specifically resources put in to help support the people to do the

Government Operations committee  How many people does it involve? Just give me one second.

Government Operations committee  In budget 2016, which is included in our mains, we received an additional eight people in terms of supporting the Prime Minister. Their functions—

Government Operations committee  Supporting the overall communications functions, to help support—

Government Operations committee  Those would include publishing requirements for the website. The volume of publishing has increased significantly with regard to that. It would include the complete overhaul of the website, as well as making—

Government Operations committee  Yes, but the whole thing is that we still have to continue to make sure.... Technology, once it's put in, doesn't stay static. You have to make sure it's patched, maintained, and upgraded. There would be a component that would always be involved in making sure of the robustness o

Government Operations committee  It wouldn't be just for the Prime Minister. It would be for the overall communications functions we have within PCO. It supports a number of things as well. It will include the clerk as well.

Government Operations committee  As I said, we have $2 million for public opinion research, $1.2 million for digital by default, which is the new approach we're taking for communications, and roughly about $100,000 to support—

Government Operations committee  We had a significant increase in resources in the Privy Council Office due to budget 2016, so we had to look at our existing space, which had not been modernized for a number of years. The government standard right now is moving to a Web 2.0 type of standard. It was resources to

Government Operations committee  I'm an assistant deputy minister. The Prime Minister is the minister responsible for this.

Government Operations committee  They would be receiving some form of stipend or honoraria in order to participate, so it wouldn't be that they would just do this freely. They would be compensated for their time.

Government Operations committee  I'm not exactly sure if it is public, but we can find out, and if we do have it available, we will definitely—