Wendy Bisaro
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Thanks, Mr. Chair. I’m not sure if this question belongs here, but I think so because it talks about policy. I’ve discovered over my few years here that we, unfortunately, as a government, have way too many policies that contradict each other between one department and another, particularly with regard to Income Support, Health and Social Services, and Housing.
I just wondered whether or not the corporation does any review of their policies with a view to how they conflict with other policies in other departments, with a view to ensuring that housing, people applying for housing or people in...
Page 12-13, Industry, Tourism and Investment, activity summary, corporate management, operations expenditure summary, $7.908 million. Mr. Dolynny.
Thank you, Mr. Vician. Committee, I believe that concludes general comments. Are we agreed?
Thank you, Minister. Mr. Bromley.
Thanks, Mr. Bromley. Minister Ramsay.
I appreciate the commitment from the Minister. I guess I would just like to say I appreciate this is coming before senior management and Cabinet. I’d like to suggest to the Minister that we don’t have to reinvent the wheel. There are lots of governments out there that, no doubt, have policies and guidelines, so I would suggest to the Minister that we copy them more than develop our own.
Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Vician.
Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Mr. Dolynny, anything further?
I didn’t hear the answer. Thank you very much, colleagues. To the Minister, I would like to know whether or not this is something that, as a government, I feel that we need to remain impartial and I would like to know from the Minister whether or not he thinks there’s a policy gap here and, if so, is he willing to do something about developing some guidelines and some policies to handle Facebook sites and websites.
Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Ms. Magrum.