Government Operations committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and committee members. It's a pleasure to be with you today. I'm Sony Perron, the executive vice-president of Shared Services Canada. I'm accompanied today by Mr. Matt Davies, deputy chief technology officer for SSC. As you are aware, Minister Murray's

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question. I am aware of the references in the report that was issued by the National Defence audit group. This report is about actions in the last few years. Since then, we have implemented a new structure at Shared Services Canada that allows us to have bette

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry, but I can't answer that specific question. Each application on the GoC network has its criticality standards and the response time is set for each. For National Defence, the criteria vary depending on the services offered. Some may need to be revised. That said, I am n

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, from the Shared Services Canada perspective, this plan is very critical in the sense that it provides the architecture and direction for all the client departments to advance the agenda, from dealing with legacy architecture and us supporting them, modernizing their in

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, it's an interesting question in the sense that while we are very focused on security and cybersecurity, we need to make sure that our employees and Canadians have access to the services and the systems we are putting in place. Accessibility is always, besides security,

Government Operations committee  Maybe I can add that in the first, I would say, 10 weeks of the pandemic, there were difficulties for the system to accommodate remote access and there was not enough connection. When it came to the end of May to June last year, the capacity ramped up in terms of secure remote ac

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, there is a process that is called the supply chain integrity process that is managed by the Communications Security Establishment. SSC will refer procurement activities with suppliers or new products to CSE for review and advice, to look at the security aspect. It's no

Government Operations committee  Okay. I will try to be a bit more clear. We don't have any Huawei technology operating on our network at this time. If there were any provider that would be coming with that technology, it would be part of the package that would be reviewed through the supply integrity chain, an

Government Operations committee  With regard to the policies when we are acquiring services or technology, we go through the supply chain integrity process. We ask for advice from CSE before taking action. There is a built-in process to assess the integrity of the supply chain and to make sure we are making the

Government Operations committee  What I'm saying is that each time we are procuring new products or new devices, we are going through the supply chain integrity process that has been put in place to assess each and every transaction.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, to answer the question from the member of Parliament, this process is managed by the CSE, so in terms of describing what the steps are and how this proceeds, I think Mr. Jones would be better equipped than I would be to explain that.

Government Operations committee  You're asking me a historical question. I haven't been at Shared Services Canada that long. I won't be able to answer that and give you a date. I think Mr. Jones or Mr. Brouillard could probably give us the date when this was created.

Government Operations committee  Exactly. It's also to make sure that we don't only look at the surface. The process looks deep. What is behind? What is behind in terms of technology? Sometimes we buy services. These service providers will have their own technologies and their own infrastructures. These have to

Government Operations committee  It's the assurance that SSC is looking for through that process. It's to make sure that those with the expertise and the knowledge will go through the process and perform that kind of assessment that our technical team may not have the expertise to do. We are lucky in Canada; we

Government Operations committee  Yes, Mr. Chair.