As it was designed, the system is working well. We have tested it to make sure that it responds to the demand in the way we want. A number of procedures are in place for granting access permissions. This may involve public access for everyone or more confidential information. Our permission allocation structure is a good one and operates robustly within the system.
As for the infrastructure support we receive from Shared Services Canada, we want to add to it this year in order to provide a very quick system of information retrieval and availability. Currently, departments have different continuity plans and parallel systems for their information. In fact, if there were a short-term service interruption, that is how we would operate. However, in the event of a longer interruption, we would really have to use daily back-ups that we could recover the information.
In the next year, working in collaboration with our partner, Shared Services Canada, we really want to have an environment that would mirror the one we currently have in the event of an interruption. This is what we call enhanced readiness. We also want a system that would be able to gather information from another source, if ever a data centre cannot provide it.