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(Return tabled) Question No. 488 Hon. Larry Bagnell: With regards to government advertising in Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories on “Canada’s Economic Action Plan”: (a) how much has the government spent on radio, in each territory indicating the station, date and time the commercial aired, amount spent, and ownership of the station; (b) how much has the government spent on television in each territory, indicating the station, date and time the commercial aired, amount spent, and ownership of the station; (c) how much has the government spent on newspapers in each territory, indicating the date and page of the newspaper ad, name ...[+++]of the newspaper, ownership, amount of advertising space purchased, and if a higher rate was paid for preferential placement of the ads; (d) how much has the government spent on magazines in each territory, indicating the date and page of the magazine ad, name of the magazine, ownership, amount of advertising purchased, and if a higher rate was paid for preferential placement; (e) how much has the government spent on media websites in each territory, indicating what website advertising was purchased by the government, amount, length and terms of the website advertising, and owner of the website; (f) how much has the government spent on billboards, in each territory, indicating the amount of money spent on billboard advertising, locations of the billboards, duration of the billboard ad, and ownership of the billboard company; (g) what are the names of the companies responsible for purchasing the Government of Canada advertising in the territories, the ownership of the companies, commission to be paid for the work done, and length and terms of the contract; and (h) was this contract sole sourced or open bid, and what were the dates of the contract posting on the government website?

The funding increase is required to ensure equity in relation to the national rate of inflation (2%) until such time as collective agreements and service contracts are finalized. Further details on these and other major initiatives are found on pages 10 to 12.

If one was to go by the second and the third paragraphs on page 2 of your presentation, and converted those figures into a rate of return on investment—and I'm referring to the 22 contracts worth $34 million in energy investment, which will generate close to $5 million in annual energy savings and the creation of 700 jobs—that is a rate of return of almost 15%. I would say that is a remarkable rate.

In regard to the grain companies, on page 16 of the Estey report it's noted that where grain companies contracted on behalf of the Wheat Board to buy malting barley from farmers, they deducted the full freight rates from the farmers, while pocketing the volume discounts negotiated with the railways.