Thanks for that important question, MP Kusmierczyk.
I agree with you in terms of ensuring that there's consistency across government. We want to make it easy and we want to be up to date in terms of the technological piece, which is what this transfer is going to do. It will help support the implementation of what is referred to as IT-ESM, the information technology enterprise service model, as an enterprise approach for managing IT services.
That gets to the point of your question. The government is implementing this to enable enterprise-focused, IT-focused decision-making, structures and processes; introduce IT service standards; enhance IT planning; and provide predictable and stable government IT infrastructure funding.
We think that this is very important, particularly at this time. The implementation of this will appropriate enterprise services to SSC, while SSC will continue to cost-recover for department-specific services.