Thank you, Minister.
To respond to the member's question, we have identified eight cloud vendors. They range from Microsoft to Amazon, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google, Oracle, a Canadian company called ThinkOn and others. That's all publicly available information. Just visit our website. It's there on OpenGov. You can see who has already been pre-qualified. There are a total of eight that the departments can choose from.
All of those vendors had to set up operations here in Canada, so they are subject to our legislative requirements. None of this data is offshore. We're working with the CSE and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security to establish the security requirements. They regularly go in and audit those facilities to make sure they are compliant with security requirements, so that we know exactly how the data is being stored and who has access to the data. These are some of the most stringent security requirements, so we have confidence that the data is there and, just like in any other data centre, properly secured.
However, we don't stop there. As the minister and others have spoken about, the path to the cloud matters. We don't want departments all creating their own networks—