Thank you, Madam Chair.
Welcome.
I'd like to slip to something that I find is a bit of a problem, and I would like to preface it.
I can recall a previous committee in which we were concerned with the lack of communication between various systems. In this particular case, it was a security problem: the inability to communicate effectively between our military, CSIS, border security, regular police. They didn't have the ability to effective communicate. That problem was recognized, and obviously moves were made to move in an effective manner to increase the capacity.
But now, if I may take that same sort of problem with our IT technology, we have literally a dog's breakfast of procedures and programs and departments and needs. We really haven't moved effectively towards any level of shared services.
I'd like to know how you either plan to modernize and/or harmonize or move towards shared services, so that we can have some semblance of efficiencies, instead of everybody going everywhere and not being able to move effectively. How many software programs do we have that are simply duplications, and not capable of communicating effectively between departments, etc.?
Where are you moving in this field?