Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd suggest that it's not being policed if in fact the program was brought in in the fall of 2003 and since the fall of 2003, like I said, hundreds of thousands of dollars has been spent on web sites that don't follow the program. Even the GNWT's homepage, Madam Chair, does not follow the Visual Identity Program, and I think it's something we have to pay attention to. In my mind, what I'd really like to see happen is there be some kind of uniformity, some type of, you know, if somebody goes on the web site and looks for the GNWT, they find our homepage and then each department doesn't have the latitude to go out and do whatever they want willy-nilly. They have to follow a format; they have to follow some guidelines in setting up a web site so that we have some uniformity and so that we have some direction. This just has not been allowed to happen. Every department seems to go about things their own way, do whatever they want and spend taxpayers' dollars doing that and, by doing that, not following the program that we have set up. So again, I'd like to just say that somebody has to be policing this and maybe it's time that somebody pulled the reins in on the departments and said this is the way you're going to do it; take it or leave it. That's what ultimately has to happen. I think the Premier has to put his foot down; the department has to put their foot down and force departments to tow the line, follow the line because right now it's haphazard at best. Like I said, 10 out of 13 of the sites violate the VIP. Our own homepage violates it. Let's do something about it. Thank you
David Ramsay on Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 27th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 26th, 2006
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