Our website has approximately 200,000 pages, just to give you a sense of the scope of information. I know many of you are aware that websites have made various leaps, even in the last five to 10 years, but when the Veterans Affairs website began in the nineties, basically brochures were taken and put up on the website. Information was just captured, written, and put up on the web. We've come so many leaps beyond that, and now information is created in an interactive way.
That said, some of the information put up there in the nineties is still legitimate and accurate, so what we needed to do was find a way to quickly highlight that information for the veteran. Not every veteran would come in and touch 200,000 pages. Many of those, for example, are our Canadian virtual war memorial, honouring all of Canada's war dead. Many of the pages there would not be touched by a veteran with service and benefits questions.
This tool is significant in that it channels the veteran. I think there are 48 landing pages underneath this tool. That said, the existing base is still there. If they want the information, it's still available to them.
Part of our work as well, and this is across government, is on web standards. Departments are looking through their websites to make sure that content is updated, that it's not redundant, that it's not trivial, that the best information is there, and that we have quality of information in both languages as a priority.