Government Operations committee  The protocol is about making a determination as to whether there is foreign interference and then taking steps from that.

Government Operations committee  As for what goes on behind the scenes in terms of investigation, I don't think it would be appropriate for me to comment, but I think on a case-by-case basis agencies and organizations beyond the five that are making that set of decisions—

Government Operations committee  —would be involved in any type of investigation, any type of recommendations. This is really a decision-making body that has that final say. That's not to say that there's not involvement from other agencies that exist across government.

Government Operations committee  I can only repeat what I've already said.

Government Operations committee  You'll get no disagreement at this table around the importance of paying public servants.

Government Operations committee  I mean—

Government Operations committee  Paying our employees is key, and it's something that is in every deputy's performance appraisal—supporting the steps being taken. For example, one of the key things being done right now is what we call HR-to-pay. It's looking at ways that we actually submit information to the pay

Government Operations committee  I will add that I'm very passionate about this.

Government Operations committee  As you likely know, the Prime Minister took on the role of minister for youth in addition to being Prime Minister. The PCO, in supporting the Prime Minister, has a secretariat for youth and a deputy minister supporting the prime minister in that role. I would say, before I get to

Government Operations committee  I don't know that I have any details on the youth gateway itself. That's how it is.

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. It's largely my team who has a role in ensuring that there is secure communication capacity in the government for cabinet, for the Prime Minister and others to have—

Government Operations committee  I won't get into specific concerns. I would simply say that it's important to always be proactively monitoring the threat environment and ensuring that our technology and our processes are up to speed to combat those emerging threats. With that in mind, we've taken steps through

Government Operations committee  Looking back at budget 2016, we had a number of items that were brought in. There was $88 million over five years for IT projects. We invested in various projects to increase our hardware and increase the core infrastructure from an IT perspective. You'll see, starting this year,

Government Operations committee  Keep in mind that we're comparing year over year, so it's just a decrease compared with what our main estimates were last year. This year our main estimates had under $7 million allocated for MMIWG because it was just those final few months of the year. Similar to last year, we a

Government Operations committee  Thank you, as always, for your question. I appreciate the way you always express your appreciation for the public service when you ask these questions. Just as an update, when I came to this committee last year, we at PCO were temporarily managing the funding, because the actual