Government Operations committee  That is an excellent question. Clearly, any manager of an organization that is involved in communications has an interest in their team being able to explore their creative side and take action. It should be noted that not all departments have the same capacities. Very small dep

Government Operations committee  I think that internal resources have sometimes been used instead of outside organizations. For a particular campaign, one advertising was done internally and another one externally. It is sometimes complementary and sometimes separate. I would say that the capacity is not the sa

Government Operations committee  No, I don't think we would want that to be the case.

Government Operations committee  When it comes to departments, this doesn't really need to be centralized to a point where everyone is in the same place. We can also have something of an expertise network that includes a number of departments that are working together in order to create internal capacity. It is

Government Operations committee  I think that a report was produced, but once the new system was implemented, the Auditor General was asked to review the system and send us a report on the assessment of the new system. That has not yet been done. It is up to him, or his office, to decide on the date, the extent

Government Operations committee  He could have decided on his own to do so.

Government Operations committee  To add to that point, a lot of public notices are issued for specific, targeted.... If all of them had to go through the ASC, there might be a time delay that would not necessarily be required for a very localized public notice. That was part of the consideration as well.

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  Your point is noted. I think the CRA does have campaigns about tax credits more broadly. I've written down your comments, so thank you for that.

Government Operations committee  Yes, it probably would come down to departments when they make their requests. I can't speak for all departments on that particular point about private spending, about professionals outside the government doing some of their own activities, and whether or not that factors in. The

Government Operations committee  I don't think the results are published. ACETs, yes, a million-plus are published.

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. All Government of Canada activities, whether web presence, a news release, or a social media shareable, apply by non-partisan communications standards, so we would have oversight over all the activities to make sure they are respecting the communications policy of th

Government Operations committee  On the government websites, all communication would have to adhere to the colour requirements for the communications policy.

Government Operations committee  Yes, it is “ATIP-able”. Go ahead.

Government Operations committee  We should be clear that this is about click-through rates. We put out an ad. How many times was it shared through Twitter? It was shared 12,000 times or two million times. Click-through is the type of data analytics we're sharing through Facebook.