Public Accounts committee  I think from a NEXUS perspective perhaps that's true. We have more capacity in general to handle our trusted travellers, NEXUS card holders, at the larger ports of entry than we do at the smaller ports of entry.

Public Accounts committee  Before I turn it over, the short answer is yes. I don't know if you want to enlarge on that. One thing I would say is that we're also caught in midstream on some of these projects. For projects that had already started, we implemented these frameworks, and then the question was how far back in time to go.

Public Accounts committee  I would just add that what we're dealing with here in many cases are legacy systems that don't talk to each other, and a lot of what we're trying to do is overcome those silos. Much of the IT that we have is at least 20 years old and it came from the old Immigration, the old CCRA, Agriculture....

Public Accounts committee  I'm afraid I haven't come prepared to speak explicitly to that and I don't come from operations. My colleagues in enforcement and intelligence, I think, are better able to respond to that. I did follow the media, though, and I know that the funding is for us to increase our capacity to follow foreign fighters basically and conduct investigations.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. I'll turn to my colleague to describe the current state of play on the FOSS-GCMS transition.

Public Accounts committee  We've been around since 2013...?

Public Accounts committee  I don't know the answer to that. Do you know the answer to that?

Public Accounts committee  Yes, me too. We worked on a procedure for how to assess benefits and how to identify benefits. That discussion happened in January at the committee which my colleague chairs. We're now in the process of going after that benefits identification for those projects. My safe guess is that we're actually about the same, but by the end of June we will be in a very significantly different place, because people have been working in teams since the conversation we had in January to figure out how to operationalize benefits for those other projects.

Public Accounts committee  I think it did result in some frequent and intensive conversations with our colleagues in Treasury Board Secretariat.

Public Accounts committee  Do you want me to read the five projects into the record? They're the entry-exit initiative, FOSS, or the field operations support system replacement project, the interactive advanced passenger information initiative, the single window initiative, and the temporary resident biometrics project.

Public Accounts committee  I would like to turn to my colleague in IT.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. As we've noted, we have completed our IT plan, our investment plan, and a number of things you see in our management action plan. I've looked at a pilot version of a report on benefits realization, and we have a way to go. We'll have that report ready in September.

Public Accounts committee  If I may, we would need to go back to the transcript, but I think what my colleague was trying to say was that the—

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. We were all involved in the decisions about which gates would get checked off as we implemented a new framework. The challenge for us has been IT projects that were already in progress, had been started, were a long way down the road to being completed when we bring in a new project management framework.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. May I turn to my colleague? Thank you.