Thank you.
I'd like to read a clarification to Mr. McCauley's statement in the previous round. “With regard to the Treasury Board's departmental results report, it is reported that targets were exceeded for large departments to maintain a system of internal controls to mitigate the risks to programs' operations and resource management and Treasury Board submissions transparently disclosed financial risk to help cabinet make decisions. With regard to consulting costs, past under investments resulted in significant technical debt as IT infrastructure ages. Aging software systems can be costly to maintain, are at a risk of performance failures and are prone to service interruptions. Thanks to recent investment in critical upgrades and modernizing Canada's IT infrastructure, we've made continued progress.”
Could you please comment on the importance of investment to modernize IT capacity and the hard lessons from the previous government, which used digital transformations as cost-cutting exercises that saddled taxpayers with higher costs down the road and hurt the public service?