Thank you.
As you know, government online was part of a bigger initiative by the government called Connecting Canadians, and as we look at that, the secure channel was a clear component piece to enable government online to achieve its outcomes. So, as Mr. Poole indicated in his opening statements, secure channel was a broad component piece to enable what we call GOL, government online. Government online was required to make 130 of the most commonly used services available to Canadians.
So the business case behind the secure channel, as an enabler, really relied on enabling those 130 transactions that required the types of networks and the type of security that are available through the secure channel. One of the challenges had been, at the time, in 2003, that the departments had identified those services but hadn't clearly identified perhaps the volume of activity that would come through the secure channel.
There was also, as you point out, a question from the Auditor General, at the time, in terms of sustainability. So funding had been made available through government online to develop the secure channel, but then the question was, at what point would we go into a long-term sustainable model. I think the questions of governance really focus in on the question of the long-term sustainable model, and the funding for the secure channel basically wrapped up—