Thank you.
In terms of the priorities, as we were established last November, we articulated very clearly for ourselves that our first priority was to maintain operations. We recognized that we were entrusted with the support of 2,100 mission-critical systems. The Government of Canada runs on IT and it was important for us to equip ourselves to be able to support all of that IT, so we did put a tremendous focus on operational continuity in context and in cooperation with our partners.
As well, as all other departments did, we did have as a priority to meet the deficit reduction targets of government. We were asked to identify initiatives that could add up to 5% and 10% savings. We made a proposal to that effect to the government, which was accepted and announced in the budget.
I don't really separate out the two. We did articulate our first priority in our RPP as being operational continuity. I would say that in identifying the potential initiatives for savings at Shared Services Canada, we did take great care to protect our ability to maintain operations while realizing those savings. We didn't want those changes to affect our ability to operate the systems of government, and we also didn't want those savings to jeopardize our ability to launch our transformation agenda, so we identified initiatives that would enable us to do that.