Government Operations committee  Perhaps I can start on that one. Are we referring to the Canadian digital service? The Canadian digital service is actually funded for three years. We are tracking their budget. This is one of the sunsetting programs Brian talked about earlier. In the second year, they've increas

Government Operations committee  Well, the money sunsets, and the other thing is that we have set up indicators. What we consider to be success for the Canadian digital service is that the applications they develop, the services they improve, the digitization that they accomplish are completed on time with a rea

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  There are various categories, but on average, the employer pays about 95% and the CAF members pay about 5%.

Government Operations committee  Yes—

Government Operations committee  I think we'll be back at this table for the main estimates, or following the supplementary estimates, once we get an estimate of what the new premiums should be to make sure it maintains its stability.

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry. I didn't note the number of new staff that we'll be hiring at TBS to do this, but I want to give some precision on what exactly this money is for. I think you know that our proposed new legislation is currently in the Senate. This funding is to support those proactiv

Government Operations committee  I think that's probably happening at the departmental level, depending on the backlogs experienced by each department. Hopefully, when we get into the position where we are proactively disclosing things, departments can organize themselves not to wait for a request but to put it

Government Operations committee  Right.

Government Operations committee  I guess it depends on the number of medically released. We have made an assumption. The previous assumptions were based on 1,600 new medically released CAF members a year. We have upped that now in these new estimates to 2,500. Based on our experience last year and the year befor

Government Operations committee  That's why we got into a deficit. It happened over a three-year period. Manulife continued to pay out the claims so we got ourselves into deficit. We're paying charges so now we're bringing ourselves back to financial sustainability.

Government Operations committee  The quick answer is yes, but I will kind of tell you how. Of that $6.3 million that we're focused on, $4.9 million is basically to look at, as Brian talked about, taking our HR systems and how they feed pay—

Government Operations committee  Depending on what it is, we have several initiatives under way, so there are lots of professional services plus other companies. I'd have to get back to you.

Government Operations committee  There are quite a few actually working with us right now.

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry, I can't actually. We have posted the request for service but we haven't yet signed a contract.