Thank you, Minister.
Mr. Chair, the work around SSC 3.0 is about creating a platform that allows public servants to work internally and effectively but also provides Canadians with the right digital tools. It's both.
When it comes to the $158 million that you referred to earlier, it's about eliminating a lot of the transactional activity between the departments. This money is not new spending; it's just that it has been consolidated. Shared Services Canada is providing the service to all of the departments without having transactions for every demand.
It will also help us to optimize around mobile phones, email, mainframe services. Mainframe is the tool that many of the large departments providing service directly to Canadians are using to process a magnitude of data. It's important. It's changing the way we are doing the service. Rather than having 40 departments doing it on their own and submitting orders, it enables SSC to provide the services in a seamless way to try to gain efficiency and continue to reinvest in the infrastructure.
We secure, we stabilize, and we make it reliable over time. We eliminate a lot of the transactions around it. We make it simple for the enterprise with the right solutions.