Thank you, Ms. Forand.
Our plan for the consolidation of data centres is to look at the services that are delivered inside those facilities, and then to consolidate them into fewer facilities. Our goal has been to identify the data centre locations using objective criteria and science to establish where those locations would be, and then to build those data centres in pairs. The reason for pairs is that it allows for disaster recovery between the data centres in cases of emergency, or for business continuity reasons.
The process by which we're going to consolidate is, first, to look at the individual servers that exist within the data centres, then to go to much larger computers and servers, and then to bring all of the applications and the systems that run on those servers into fewer, much more dense, much more efficient, and environmentally friendly data centres over the next seven years. It is a very large-scale effort. As Madam Forand said, the 485 data centres are located across the country in all sorts of buildings. There are very few—only two—purpose-built data centres within the Government of Canada. So our goal is to move to very modern facilities over the next number of years, because of the scale and complexity of what has to be done.