This will hopefully answer other members' questions about why certain pieces of information have been withheld.
On any given day, when I arrived at Shared Services two years ago, there were over 400 unplanned outages per day. This past year, we had almost 80-some thousand unplanned outages. That's about 200 a day. That's the state of the infrastructure, so we've made significant improvements. Of those unplanned outages, the number that are critical is pretty small but significant, and it's about 300—just a little less than 300 critical outages. That's where services to Canadians or public servants who need those services desperately to do their jobs are out for an extended period of time.
We're racing to fix some of these old outdated systems faster than they are breaking to make sure that public servants have the tools they need to serve Canadians.
The security issues that we, for example, why we wouldn't disclose the location of a data centre... On any given day, as Scott Jones testified to this very committee, there are two billion malicious activities that we intercept, each and every day. These are not theoretical cyber-threats. They are real. They are organized, and they would desperately love to know the details of our architecture and the location of that architecture.
Therefore, absolutely, I will take my responsibility to protect that information, because they are assets of the nation that this government uses to serve Canadians.