Mr. Chair, in response to the member's question, as he alluded to, cloud is just an exceptionally large data centre that is often multi-tenant and allows the vendor to be able to scale up. What is unique about the way the Government of Canada has approached cloud is that we have imposed our security requirements. As Mr. Jones said, protected B is an example. We have physical requirements that they have to reside in Canada. They have physical security requirements. The employees have to be cleared. Where we are able to, we work with security partners to go in and physically audit those security requirements.
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