Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Minister, for appearing again before committee.
For my first question, Shared Services Canada—which is under your portfolio, and which exists to provide the federal government with IT and digital services—will spend a reported $2.1 billion this year. That's over a 40% increase from when you took office.
I also read, in the annual Bloomberg Innovation Index, which measures countries' innovation in things such as the digital economy, that Canada had actually fallen two places, year over year. We've fallen behind countries such as Slovenia, Australia and Italy.
I'm wondering, with a 40% increase in spending on digital services, why are we falling behind when it comes to innovation?