As I mentioned to Mr. Lobb, I think it is too early to answer the question. There are advantages to having Shared Services Canada. There are disadvantages. I know that when I was managing departments, and when I was deputy minister of Human Resources Development as it then was, which is now ESDC, all of the informatics for the Canada Pension Plan and the Employment Insurance Commission were done in-house. Frankly, we would have benefited from having an outside manager who was handling this for us, because we ended up cancelling a contract for $750 million because the contractor wasn't delivering. We could have had a better result if it had been done by a centralized government organization. So I've seen both—where it's better to have it under the control of the department and where it's better if the government, the whole of government, is trying to manage it.
On April 6th, 2017. See this statement in context.