We were going to be short in location for 27 new employees, so we were looking at having extra rental space. However, because of the hybrid possibility and the flexibility that telework and working remotely are giving us, we see that we won't need the additional rental space, so the money will be able to be spent on people and on innovation in technology.
We are definitely moving to a cloud environment at my office so that we can have easy access to all of our documents. We're scanning all the files so that we don't have paper anymore and so that people can work from home easily.
It also is going to give us the flexibility of hiring people outside of the national capital region, which is great, because we've always had difficulties recruiting in this field. Now we can have people in Toronto, Vancouver and London, Ontario. This has been a great opportunity for my office in terms of hiring and retaining all these people.
As for the $3 million we received permanently, I was getting it every year for the last five years, but, as I said earlier, it was always a temporary measure. Now we finally are able to invest long term in our employees and in our infrastructure so that we will definitely be getting some long-term gain.