I would like to talk about this for 40 minutes, but I will do it very quickly, because I know we're tight for time.
We have anywhere from a 25% to a 30% vacancy rate in technical jobs in the government. That is relatively consistent, by the way, across Canada. We are seeing particular pinch points in cybersecurity, cloud computing and architecture. There are a few areas in which we are competing with companies all across Canada.
We need to do a better job of lighting up what technology people in this country do for Canadians. No one gets to do what we do. It is my mission to go out and have many more people come in and do a tour of service within government doing digital work. First of all, I think there would be a different understanding of the complexity within government and the things we need to do. I say that with all humbleness, having worked for 30 years in the private sector. I looked across and said, “What's going on in there?” I came into government and said, “Oh, my goodness, this is very complicated.”
I think it would also be great to have people from government go out into the private sector and learn what it's like to have quarterly shareholder meetings and some of the metrics that drive industry and a lot of the innovation in our country. That is a huge issue, not just for the Government of Canada but also for Canada.