We are so excited to have been given a big plug in budget 2021 to finish the work on our digital platform modernization. It's in three phases. We had secure funding for the first two phases, which are really about technical debt reduction on our system, which tends to break a lot, and better disaster recovery on our system.
The third phase is the big phase. The third phase is the transformation phase. That is the $800-and-some million in budget 2021. We need to go about the process now of securing those dollars through a Treasury Board process, but we also need to do the good front-end work on this system we're building. We need to build a modern immigration system going forward. It's not just about replacing the IT from the global case management system. It's about actually building a system that can transform our business, that can do better client service, that can do better integrity and that really lets us be quicker, faster and more competitive with what we're doing.
That is not going to turn on a dime. I anticipate that you'll see the long funding profile on that if you look at budget 2021. It's a five-year funding profile. We'll go through it carefully in phases. What we don't want to do is fall into the trap that others have fallen into on new IT builds. Those good lessons learned from systems like Phoenix are really important to us. To invest in change in transformation, to invest in the dialogue with clients, to invest in good conversations around this, it feels like a really important step that—