Thank you for the question. I think what I referred to briefly in my opening remarks is that there is a review of administrative services and operating costs of the Government of Canada, which was also announced in the budget, and to which my colleague Daniel Jean has just recently been appointed. He is going to be looking at where efficiencies and effectiveness can be found across the government.
For example, we are currently, with Public Works and Government Services, looking at the number of data centres and data warehouses we have. We have quite a few across the Government of Canada--over 120, I think. They're spread out across the country. They could be consolidated. We also need to consider, in light of business continuity requirements, that we could do maintenance a lot more effectively that way as opposed to looking at these services department by department.
For example, we have found that when departments co-locate services, when they're in the same building, we could probably drive more efficiencies by integrating services across organizations, so that we don't duplicate and have each one with a set of mailroom services or with the costs of administering some of the operating systems, such as financial systems. We can consolidate the application services for information technology. There is a range of opportunities that this will enable us to look at and to consider where the services are that I would consider to be perhaps not quite core to the government or where each department doesn't necessarily need to have its own.
We have seen in other jurisdictions--for example, in a lot of the provinces that have looked at this--that there are more effective and efficient ways of looking at what we would consider to be the costs of operating government. That doesn't affect the service delivery to Canadians; it's more about how we operate on an organizational basis across the board.