Government Operations committee  There are three big projects in the email transformation system. This project was supposed to end in March 2015, but I do not know exactly when it will be complete. The next steps for the migration of the departments have yet to be negotiated with the supplier. As for...

Government Operations committee  The strategic plan that the Auditor General was discussing, I believe, was the strategic plan that the Treasury Board Secretariat is responsible for dealing with, the IT strategic plan. Treasury Board Secretariat is drafting that plan, and we are contributing to it, but it provid

Government Operations committee  The Shared Services transformation plan was first set in 2013 and then went back to Treasury Board ministers as a report in June 2015. We are asked to report annually. As part of getting ready for this year's report, we're taking the opportunity to do a complete reset of the pl

Government Operations committee  It's not base zero in terms of the objectives. Projects are launched. We have launched the email transformation, we've launched the renewal of the networks, some of the data centre migrations have begun, and we've established three of probably five data centres. But we need to lo

Government Operations committee  As part of the exercise, it's a set of trade-offs between budget, scope, and time. Those are the variables we have to look at. Going faster could cost more, or if you reduce the scope, you could go faster potentially. At this point, I don't know for certain where those are going

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have on my left side Mr. John Glowacki, the chief operating officer for Shared Services Canada. On my right side is Monsieur Alain Duplantie, the chief financial officer for Shared Services Canada, a recent addition to our department. With that, Mr. Chai

Government Operations committee  I couldn't hear the question.

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. The procurement instruments have been developed, and as of September 1 last year, the remainder of the national standing offers moved over to Shared Services Canada. We are operating on the basis of that, taking the orders from the departments to fulfill their needs.

Government Operations committee  Those are very large initiatives to start with. But there's also a network initiative related to consolidating the 50 siloed networks down into one network for the Government of Canada. Those three projects comprise work that is of an unprecedented scale in terms of the transform

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I'm happy to. Our role is principally to supply the support tools necessary for the public service employees engaged in the initiative, such as mobile telephony and mobile laptops, and to help make sure the servers that support the initiative and the screening of the

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the question. Our participation in this initiative, which is mainly the immigration department's responsibility, is to support the IT infrastructure side of this initiative. In terms of the broader initiative, Graham, do you want to say something about

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, we'll come back with an explanation of what we do in terms of secure keys and that type of service, but I'll just note that Shared Services Canada does not provide services to the House of Commons.

Government Operations committee  I'm not a technologist, I'm afraid. I'll say that right up front. I'm going to ask the technology expert, Patrice Rondeau, to take on that question.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The efforts are significant. We're moving from 50 siloed separate networks to one network. In the design of the network, we're paying very close attention to the redundancy and high availability of the network. That work is just starting. At this point, the

Government Operations committee  We're in the process, Mr. Chair, of looking at all of the assumptions underpinning the transformation plan and working towards putting forward a new, revised, and updated plan in the fall of this year.