Mr. Chair, the member's assumption is correct. We had, maybe on a busy day, 30,000 to 40,000 public servants working from home before the pandemic. In a snowstorm or ice storm it had gone up a little bit, but not much. We're at about 300,000.
We don't call them “people” but “connections”, because people will connect and disconnect. We don't actually have connections for every single person, because not every single person is on at the same time. It's how we consolidate efficiencies. The numbers are staggeringly large in terms of public servants working from home, the network requirements to support that, and the bandwidth requirements, because we push more video now. They used to walk into a meeting room. The reliance on the network and on the bandwidth that's required is significantly higher.