Thank you very much for the question.
As I understand it, the amount of $6.6 billion is the amount that will be spent between now and 2030–2031. It is not just the old age security project that will be included at the end; there will also be the Canada pension plan and employment insurance. Benefit programs for the most vulnerable will obviously be part of this project. So there are still a lot of factors to consider, and it is one of the systems that will be modernized the most among all governmental programs.
I also want to say that the total of OAS payments exceeds $80 billion a year. A huge number of cheques are sent to claimants, and we have to make sure that the systems are fully reliable since payments are made every month.
