There was a very real risk of a service disruption in the payment of benefits. The old age security system in question was 60 years old. The pensions system is 50 years old, and the employment insurance system is more than 20 years old. These are systems that are no longer up to date. We all know how quickly technology evolves. Cybersecurity risks are also evolving. Dependence on systems that require a huge volume of manual data entry was no longer the healthy way to manage this type of program, which pays out hundreds of billions of dollars in benefits every year. I think that, overall, taxpayers got their money's worth when it came to the transition from the old age security pension system that was 60 years old to a working system for $633 million. In fact, in relation to other countries, the cost is certainly comparable.
