Thank you, Minister.
In budget 2022, you may have seen an investment toward Shared Services Canada and the Canadian Communication Security Establishment to extend some of the protection that is being provided to the core government operation of around 43 departments to a number of small departments and agencies. The reading of the NSICOP report was that this protection is essential. In order to enhance the posture of the government agencies and departments, these services need to be extended. In the last budget, there was an investment of around $174 million over five years that will allow SSC and the CSE to extend that coverage of five key services that serve as our defence for the core government operation.
As the minister said, there are also a number of investments in the main estimates that will help to improve the posture. This is only about—