Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Absolutely, it's part of Shared Services Canada's mandate, along with Treasury Board, Public Safety, as well as CSEC, to actually enhance our ability to manage, if you wish, and continue to defend ourselves against progressively increasing threats against our perimeter, our systems on the outside.
Some of those dollars that you're seeing today are the investments the government has announced to really enhance our ability to do a few things, including the defence and monitoring, as well as prevention, and increasing our capability to respond to incidents when they do take place. It is an ongoing challenge for every government and every institution in the world to fend off those increasing and progressively global threats. But the measures that we are putting in place, as well as the consolidation of that infrastructure, will actually allow us to reduce the number of points that exist today where the government systems could be vulnerable, as well as to improve our ability, with the reduced number of points, to increase our defence at those very points of entry.
Similar to windows and doors on a house, the fewer you have, the more you can actually protect those that are left, and presumably you can increase the security to allow anybody to come in or not come in. We now have a more sophisticated system, as well as increased funding, to allow us to increase our detection of anybody who does try to come into our systems.