Government Operations committee  As the minister just said, cloud services are services offered by hyperscalers. What SSC is doing is taking the opportunity to work with the private sector to offer modern, secure and reliable infrastructure.

Government Operations committee  In terms of data, our journey to the cloud started a few years ago in the public cloud, where departments started developing new applications. We are now working with four pathfinder departments to start moving protected B data to the cloud. We are at the beginning of our journey

Government Operations committee  The cloud first policy is our direction. Right now, every single department is looking at the universe of their applications to see which one will be a good candidate to cloud, and they're working with SSC to migrate those applications to the cloud or to migrate them to an in-sta

Government Operations committee  Francis will start.

Government Operations committee  It's a matter of controlling spending. Departments need to plan how they use services and determine what part of the services they will want to use over the year. Some of the key services are exclusive to Shared Services Canada. They are provided. Other services for which there i

Government Operations committee  With respect to the data centres that were transferred to Shared Services Canada when they were created, in 2011, there are now 720 of them. They existed before SSC was created.

Government Operations committee  They were created by the government over the years, when each department was responsible for its own infrastructure.

Government Operations committee  After they were set up, they were consolidated, and part of our job is to close more of them.

Government Operations committee  The strategy for the consolidation into seven centres has been revised to focus on the health of applications and their location. Four enterprise data centres were created. The goal is to consolidate these data centres and all the—

Government Operations committee  The data centres are spread across Canada. The strategy to close them is two-pronged. Some of them are nearing the end of their leases or are simply very old. Instead of modernizing them, we will consolidate the information and migrate it to other data centres. Other data centres

Government Operations committee  SSC and Correctional Services are working together to deliver services to Canadians. The October incident that was referred to in the news was only due to an external party provider in relation to building management. SSC and CSC worked together to resolve the issue. The articl

Government Operations committee  The report is saying it's the third party provider. We are working with CSC, and they are continuing to take the services from Shared Services Canada.

Government Operations committee  Yes. The last time we were here, Mr. Parker reported on the November result, which was 3.46 over 5; and in December we did our annual result which was 3.4 overall, which is really trending upwards from the 3.06 in 2016 and 2.79 in 2015.

Government Operations committee  If we look at 2016, the score for 2017 was up 1.1 point in terms of the general satisfaction.

Government Operations committee  It's unfortunate that it was reported the way it was. Thank you.