We didn't look at that specifically, but what we found was a lack or an absence of distinction between maintenance of mainframes and other IT equipment versus investments in digitization. The reasons for that.... I had been providing advice to ministers before I was the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and it is always very difficult to sell to a minister that they need to invest hundreds of millions or dozens of millions, or even a million, to maintain IT equipment, because it isn't very sexy and doesn't lead to interesting announcements. That's the main reason, I would say, to be very candid.
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