Thank you for that.
That's another one of our major programs. Right now, the Government of Canada's networks.... I'm not a technical person, but I tend to say it looks a little bit like a bowl of spaghetti. There are over 50 wide-area networks, so each department has a wide-area network. Within individual buildings there are local area networks. If you have eight departments in a single building you'll have eight local area networks. We have 485 different data centres, places where we keep our servers and our data storage, so those have to be all connected to the various departments whose data they store. All of this is done separately for video, for data, and for voice. It is a great big ball of all sorts of networks that interconnect each other.
That's obviously not optimal. It's not efficient. It's not inexpensive, and it's not as secure as it could be, because the more of these things you have, the more exposure and vulnerability you have. Our objective is to work over the next few years to build a single network backbone for the Government of Canada to secure the perimeter very closely, to limit the number of connection points that we have with the Internet so as to limit exposure there as well, and to provide modern networking capacity for all departments. That means converged voice, data, and video through one single network, which is already being implemented in some departments.
Again, it's to simplify and standardize.