Thank you, Terry.
I want to thank you for the opportunity to say a few words to you today.
It is an honour for me to be here, and I thank you.
I'm with CGI. I've been with CGI for 22 years. I've been able to participate in and witness CGI's growth into a company that today is over 25,000 people in strength. It's a company that was founded by two entrepreneurs here in Canada, in Quebec. It has grown today to have over 16,000 employees in Canada and over 25,000 worldwide.
One of the things we do observe is how other jurisdictions are applying technology as a best practice, as lead users and lead clients. I want to take two minutes to focus on that. Bernard introduced that. Governments obviously have a major role as policy-makers to ensure that we're creating the best policies to create the best environment for innovation and technology. I also believe a second important role for governments is to be a role model as a user of technology.
Governments are significant in size and in a country like Canada even more so, proportionately. The absolute numbers spent by governments on technology are in the billions of dollars. Over $7 billion is spent by governments on technology. It's important in scale. It's also important for small and larger companies in the sense that governments serve as model clients and references that companies can take, export, reapply, and use to win more business and create more economic value back into Canada. I think the role of government as a role user is a significant one.
The questions for me are these: Do we want to lead? Are we leading today? What areas are we leading in? How do we sustain that leadership position? How do we create other leadership positions? We are world leaders in the adoption and use of technology. This has been offset not only to help companies but also to help ourselves as government to become more efficient and to emerge out of this crisis in an even stronger leadership position.
I'm happy to take any questions. Thank you for the opportunity.