Government Operations committee  Thank you, Minister. Mr. Chair, the work around SSC 3.0 is about creating a platform that allows public servants to work internally and effectively but also provides Canadians with the right digital tools. It's both. When it comes to the $158 million that you referred to earl

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Minister. In budget 2022, you may have seen an investment toward Shared Services Canada and the Canadian Communication Security Establishment to extend some of the protection that is being provided to the core government operation of around 43 departments to a number

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, this question goes back to the point the minister was making a little earlier, which is that cyber security is a partnership within the Government of Canada. Our colleagues at the Cyber Security Centre are responsible for monitoring what’s going on out there and inform

Government Operations committee  To my knowledge, when it comes to the services we provide in our department, no organization was targeted directly.

Government Operations committee  Shared Services Canada doesn’t use that kind of service. We have our own resources to check our networks and equipment and detect vulnerabilities.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, with your permission, I’ll answer the member’s question. No, that’s not included in planned activities to use the $86 million mentioned in Supplementary Estimates (A).

Government Operations committee  Thank you, minister. Mr. Chair, there isn’t really an answer to that question. We will never be done updating and modernizing networks. New technological opportunities, new demands and new expectations from the citizenry mean that what is needed today will be very different from

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, we have a brokering service at Shared Services Canada that qualified eight cloud service providers based on their ability to meet security requirements. They were qualified back in 2018. When a department needs to access cloud services for protection of new workloads,

Government Operations committee  I would say that, from a Shared Services Canada perspective, we appreciate the time the committee is spending trying to understand the complexity of our operations and what we are doing, so it's always a pleasure to appear in front of you.

Government Operations committee  The $60 million and, I would say, all of the budget at SSC is taking into consideration opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We are going towards certification for our data centre, eliminating legacy infrastructure that is not using energy efficiently. I don't know i

Government Operations committee  This is an exercise we need to do on an ongoing basis. Some licences have been procured at a certain time, and they may not be the ones we need anymore. We have to keep hygiene around the using of a licence. I think it's an excellent question. Part of managing a complex IT infras

Government Operations committee  I will take this one, Mr. Chair. We have a multi-year arrangement with Microsoft for an enterprise licence that gives us, if I remember well, 400,000 licences for the whole public service. We don't have licences by department. We manage this on behalf of the government. It's a

Government Operations committee  If I remember well, it's 400,000 that we have. I could come back on the specific number. I don't have the agreement in front of me.

Government Operations committee  I'm not sure I understand the question about movement. Is it the technical side or the selection of the vendor?

Government Operations committee  We were rolling out the Microsoft 365 suite before the pandemic. We accelerated it. This was as a result of the study of the various products that were available to create an enterprise licence and negotiations that happened. There are a couple of products on the market that pro