Thank you for that question. It's a very important topic, the question of IT security.
I mentioned earlier that complexity and diversity drive costs. I think it's true that complexity and diversity are not necessarily the friends of IT security either. So we are looking to simplify things and standardize things as much as possible. We know that will also increase the security posture of the Government of Canada with respect to data centres.
But I think the most important element and the most important factor that will contribute to an increased security and enhanced security posture for the Government of Canada is the fact that we're going to be building security in from the outset. So all of our networks and all of our data centres were built one by one by individual departments, and they built them for their own security purposes, but not necessarily in any interconnected way or with any plan. Some of these started being built 40 years ago. Some of our data centres are 30 or 40 years old. At that point, I don't think IT security was where it is today, in terms of a priority, because the world hadn't evolved as it has.
So we will be building for the future, building security in from the outset. On that, we're working very closely with Communications Security Establishment Canada and its expertise, in terms of what's needed. So we're confident that the final configuration, the data centres themselves and the networks between them, will demonstrate greatly enhanced IT security.