Our mandate was not to comment on the skills of the IT professionals within the Government of Canada. What we will say, though, is that the structure that is in place, this federated model that's in place, has resulted in performance ratios, and we do quote that in one of the pages here. It's what we call the “server-to-FTE ratio”: how many servers does one FTE professional support? I think it's something like 16, or just below 16:1, in and across the Government of Canada. Performance ratios vary greatly across the departments, but we believe that the structural challenge is leading to some of this, rather than skills per se. We were not engaged to comment on the skills area.
On February 13th, 2012. See this statement in context.