When you look back through the refocus in government spending, in the first tranche, as I said in my opening statement, we reduce by $81 million in professional services. A good part of the professional services that were onboarded during the years of the pandemic escalated our use of professional services for surgical reasons, to deploy telework, remote work and all those other capabilities. We've now modernized some of those services that I mentioned to the other member. We've completed those transactions, and now we're on a downward slope of returning to fewer legacy systems and moving towards more modern systems that we implemented throughout the pandemic, when we were asked to go fast and enable things like remote working.
I'll go to one point to help my colleague. We at Shared Services Canada also do some procurement activities and, from a generative AI perspective, we've put in place recently for all government departments a generative AI tool that includes three Canadian vendors. That enables all departments to leverage generative AI tools like the one my colleague mentioned, the Microsoft one, but there is a series of Canadian vendors as well in that mix.
As well, we've developed internally a tool called CANChat, which we've deployed now on a Canadian hyperscaler to enable AI capabilities inside the Government of Canada for all public servants. Collectively, we work together, and collectively we're enabling public servants to be more efficient using AI tools.
