Photo: The Canadian Press / Justin TangOne priority for Beech will be to make federal government services to Canadians digital first and digital by design. The backlog last year, which hit 316,000 applications at its peak, resulted in officials learning more about how to improve passport services, he said. Updating legacy infrastructureSome of the government's services, like Old Age Security (OAS) payments, haven't been updated in years, he said. Citizens' Services Minister Terry Beech wants to make more Canadian government services available online. As part of the ministry shuffle, the supervision of the Canadian Digital Service, which has quietly been working behind the scenes to develop things like government apps, will be transferred from Treasury Board to ESDC.
