Government Operations committee  That's bizarre. It should be working. That is very strange. Can you hear me?

Government Operations committee  Thank you. Mr. Lukiwski, thank you for reminding me of the technologically appropriate steps. I will try to be as well behaved as I can and switch, as you said, from English to French as I move from one language to the other in my brief presentation. Thank you for inviting me

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your guidance. Thank you for your recommendation. I will try to translate into French what I have here in English. In addition, we are asking employees to use their government-supplied mobile devices, whenever possible, to send and receive emails, in line with se

Government Operations committee  Thank you, MP Block, and I'm sorry for having taken a bit more time than anticipated because of the technological adjustments that I had to learn and apply. I think it's a good idea, indeed, to move to questions. Thank you for doing that. On the guidance and the guidelines regar

Government Operations committee  That's a very good and important question. For the benefit of all members of Parliament on the committee, I would turn to Madam Owens, who is assistant comptroller general. I think she's on the call.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your patience and for your guidance. Thank you for that very good question, MP Weiler. I think you make allusion to a broad context, in which we have to both provide the benefits and services that Canadians absolutely require in this emergency situation as well as

Government Operations committee  If I may, I'll turn to Nancy. Nancy, you would be best able to provide the level of precision and usefulness that MPs would demand.

Government Operations committee  Yes, please, Nancy.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mrs. Vignola. I will give you a broad idea. The majority of employees are working from home. Ms. Chahwan will be able to give you the exact percentage across the Treasury Board, if it's available. Let me remind you that the Treasury Board Secretariat gives guidelines

Government Operations committee  Ms. Chahwan, do we have that percentage?

Government Operations committee  Mr. Bilodeau, do you have any specifics about the costs?

Government Operations committee  I would like to add that, not only has this capacity increased extraordinarily fast, but we also expect it to be useful after the crisis, when work habits will be different.

Government Operations committee  That is a very good question. I will let Mr. Bilodeau answer it.

Government Operations committee  Yes, this will be a very short answer: it is an important issue that we will certainly want to consider after the crisis.

Government Operations committee  As you already know, and it's worth repeating, we are extremely grateful—and “we” includes all Canadians—for the hard work that public servants do all the time, particularly in the context of the difficult crisis that we are living through. There are currently 35 agreements sig