Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to our witnesses.
I'd like you to tell me how government, with all its redundancies, could save Canadian taxpayers money.
For example, we have the CRA, which has relatively current data--the name, address, SIN, etc.--on everyone. Then we have a person who applies to EI and goes to a kiosk, or maybe even to a human being, and inputs all of the information that the government already has. Then years later, that same person, who is a veteran, goes to apply for benefits, and yet another government employee must input that same information that the government already has somewhere.
Is there a way to utilize this cloud technology in such a way that the information that has to stay segregated from department to department can stay segregated, but that the information that we have to re-input time after time can be shared across the board?