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As changing policy and legislation in the Government of Canada is so darn hard, and I knew this, then I knew these things were not going to change any time soon. Because of our legislation and policy, GC now is doing AI, is using the cloud, all these things. The boring stuff and the stuff you do not announce publicly because nobody cares are the stuff that will stay the longest. The governance stuff.

The GCIO team also has got levers now. Say, another Phoenix happens—they cannot blame the fact that they did not have the authority to stop it. It could still happen because of a lack of leadership, but not because there is a lack of technical tools or legislation or policy or architecture or direction.

The strength of the machinery can be seen from the fact that it took so long to find a formal replacement for me—the new GCIO started in the fall of 2021. Two of my former deputies had a shot at acting government CIO for a year, and everything continued to work. Even despite COVID-19; it is unreal the work they did to adjust to the pandemic. They had the governance and the right technology and their own leadership to keep things going.