With regard to government-wide advertising activities, broken down by department, agency, and institution, since April 1, 2011: ( a) how many advertisements have (i) been created in total, broken down by type (cinema, internet, out-of-home, print dailies, print magazine, weekly/community newspapers, radio, television) and by year, (ii) been given an identification number, a name or a Media Authorization Number (ADV number) ( b) what is the identification number, name or ADV number for each advertisement listed in (a)(ii) and ( c) for the answers to each part of (a), what is (i) the length (seconds or minutes) of each radio advertisement, television advertisement, cinema advertisement, internet advertisement, (ii) the cost for the production or creation of each advertisement, (iii) the companies used to produce or create each advertisement, (iv) the number of times each advertisement has aired or been published, specifying the total number of times and the total length of time (seconds or minutes), broken down by year and by month for each advertisement, (v) the total cost to air or publish each advertisement, broken down by year and by month, (vi) the criteria used to select each of the advertisement placements, (vii) media outlets used to air or publish each advertisement, broken down by year and by month, (viii) the total amount spent per outlet, broken down by year and by month? Hon.
With regard to the use of azodicarbonamide in Canada: ( a) in what year was Health Canada’s most recent assessment of azodicarbonamide and its chemical by-products completed ( b) what research and data was used in this assessment ( c) did Health Canada’s most recent assessment of azodicarbonamide include analysis of its chemical by-products semicarbazide and urethane and, if so, what were the results of this analysis ( d) when does Health Canada plan to undertake its next assessment of azodicarbonamide and its chemical by-products ( e) what has Health Canada established to be a safe, acceptable daily intake of azodicarbonamide and its chemical by-products ( f) what information does the government collect to ensure that Canadians are not exceeding the safe, acceptable daily intake of azodicarbonamide and its chemical by-products ( g) how many products containing azodicarbonamide have been approved for sale in Canada and ( h) what labelling requirements has the government established in regard to products containing azodicarbonamide and its chemical by-products? Hon. Therefore, these costs often are internalized as lost opportunity costs because it is the small business owners themselves who are faced with the daunting task of filling out the piles of paperwork that a business is obligated to file. However, these businesses lack the financial capacity to hire someone dedicated to regulatory compliance. They start at seven o'clock in the morning and finish at nine or ten o'clock at night. I think of all of the businesses in my riding, many of them are what we call the businesses on Main Street.
This particularly concerns small and medium-sized businesses because the annual cost of regulation per employee is highest for enterprises with less than five employees. According to a report by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, various forms of regulatory requirements spread across all levels of government cost business owners an estimated $30 billion a year in time and money.