Industry committee  Mr. Chair, I believe the issue here is that there can be a very short time between the identification of the requirement by a customer and going to the cloud. Some of the applications that are being used are not complex. As the member noted, some departments are already using t

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, the question is good. The departments that Statistics Canada serves, or other entities that it serves, are the heart of what drives Statistics Canada's business. They take those inputs in demands for statistics and data, and at what they call their “field level” they c

Industry committee  There are no projects at the moment with Statistics Canada that are in the red zone.

Industry committee  The next gate we're looking at in terms of the first phase of the project that Mr. Barr has referred to is yellow tending green. We're working with Statistics Canada on prioritization within that suite of projects. If I remember correctly, there are over 500 business requiremen

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, I'd have to get back to you in terms of the bandwidth maximization across this system. At the moment I can recall one incident that was at play. But this is quite a difficult area, because it's a combination of bandwidth, compute capacity, the memory storage capability

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, one of the most important challenges we have is the attraction and retention of talent. The rate of turnover at Shared Services Canada has been commensurate with the rate of turnover in the Public Service as a whole. But we know that for the skill sets we're looking fo

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, in regard to the project base that we have, as the member mentioned, it is roughly nine projects. We have a portfolio of about 110 projects, so it runs at about 6%, 7% of the total portfolio of projects. We review those issues regularly. They tend to be project specifi

Industry committee  I would just like to add that one really key benefit from pulling everyone together on one common network has been the perspective that you can have across the whole system, the great visibility that you have of what's coming in from the Internet and what's going out to the Inter

Industry committee  In the legacy data centre, Shared Services Canada staff have taken an oath of secrecy and are secret cleared. In the way that this network has been established, they can see the data. As Mr. Thuppal said, in terms of the census, however, Shared Services Canada employees cannot se

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, it's on a scale of five, and across 43 different partners, moving the results on that index is not an easy thing to do.

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, on a point of clarification, do you mean a spike in traffic or an improvement in the rating, or...?

Industry committee  Okay.

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, I don't have particular data on the traffic flows to each of the departments at this point. We have some extremely large clients, ranging from Employment—

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, we work with the customer departments very closely as they determine their business requirements. Their forecasts of bandwidth requirements are instrumental in determining the amount of bandwidth we provide them. That's the core basis for going forward. We also have an

Industry committee  Graham, do you want to take that on?