"Government publicity campaigns have played their part, but the VRU has been highly successful in working with young people, in particular gang members, to reduce the amount of violent crime," she said.
In February, a report disclosed how a government publicity drive, concocted under Jean Chrétien, was abused to funnel C$100m to advertising firms linked to the Liberals.
This has led to concern that government publicity has become politicised.The third change is the tightening of prime ministerial control over the Cabinet Office.
The image of a farmer in a turban doing something on a desktop as his happy family looks on is not an uncommon sight in government publicity material.
Although such encouragement for venture capitalists is continuing with government publicity and the Myners report favouring more early stage risk investment by pension funds, the pace of subscription for new venture capital trusts (VCTs) has slowed markedly in recent weeks.
Inconveniently for President Dilma Rousseff the power cut came on the same day as a government publicity campaign to reassure citizens that Brazil is not facing an electricity crunch.Specialists have long warned that supply of energy has not kept pace with surging demand.
Although the U.S. is the world's greatest expert in advertising, most of our government publicity here for democracy and liberty at this crucial stage of the European propaganda fight is still, on Washington's order, "information", as it is ecquisitely called, some of it handled with the modesty of a violet.
The Socialists have also started airing allegations of crookery under the previous regime, including the controversial sale of 12 state farms and some fat government publicity contracts won by a company close to Fidesz.But blame-casting will not clear up public finance.
