Thanks for that question.
I think we still have a lot of work to do to bring our systems, our tools, into the modern era.
One thing that happened because of COVID-19, when public servants overnight had to move to working from home when all of their tools and equipment were in their offices, is that we very quickly rolled out digital collaboration tools like Microsoft 365, which they hadn't had access to before.
In 2016, when we became government, it was shocking how many public servants were still using decades' old land lines and just didn't have tools to enable them to work together, certainly not remotely. That's one thing that will be different. People will be able to do their jobs, potentially, in a hybrid system, where they are sometimes in the office and sometimes at home.
I also want to point out that one of the big challenges has been the proliferation of data centres that are aging and create risk for the applications that are housed in them. This has been a very big priority for Shared Services Canada. It has been closing down many of those smaller data centres and creating enterprise centres or cloud services so that the applications can be more cost-effectively housed, more secure and more effective for the departments that are using them.
That work is ongoing and has a number of years still to go, but we have $37.3 million in our estimates right now to continue that work.