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Key Messages

• The Coronavirus disease outbreak and the necessary public health measures to contain its spread can have a negative impact on the mental health of people and communities across Canada, including federal public servants and their families.
• The Centre of Expertise on Mental Health in the Workplace offers a dedicated online hub on COVID-19 and mental health for public servants, providing timely, curated resources, services and supports. It includes tips and tools on how to take care of your mental health during the coronavirus outbreak and where to get more help if needed.
• Short-term enhancements to the Public Service Health Care Plan have also been made to further support staff at this time. The requirement to have a prescription for psychological services is temporarily suspended, and the scope of qualifying mental health professionals expanded, until non-critical business is authorized to resume or as indicated otherwise.
• The Government of Canada is steadfast in its ongoing commitment to supporting public servants and their mental health, including when public health measures are eased up and we return back to a new way of working.

Source - https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/campaigns/covid-19/resuming-work/covid-19-business-resumption-communications-toolkit/annexb.html

Maximize Reuse

• Leverage and reuse existing solutions, components, and processes
  • The use of Open Source software can ensure that other Departments reuse components developed, and vice versa.
  • SaaS, PaaS and IaaS solutions can leverage sharing of configurations when no code is involved such as the GC Accelerators (AWS, Amazon)
  • Opening up Communication with other Departments to identify if they've already developed a solution can enable further reuse.
• Select enterprise and cluster solutions over department-specific solutions
  • Focus on solutions that enable sharing with other Departments, do not focus just on individual mandates.
  • Costs can be setup to be shared across multiple departments, agencies etc...
• Achieve simplification by minimizing duplication of components and adhering to relevant standards
  • Focus on Separation of Concern by the development of Microservices, and use and reuse of APIs.
  • Consume APIs from the Government of Canada API Store if it exists, if it does not add it to the API store.
  • Follow the Government of Canada Standards on APIs
• Inform the GC EARB about departmental investments and innovations
  • Communicate with the GC-EARB Team early and frequently, sharing innovations and lessons learned so we can assistance in broadcasting them to others.
• Share code publicly when appropriate, and when not, share within the Government of Canada
  • Code should be shared in Public Repositories as described here.
  • When not able to, instead Code should be shared on GCCode.

Enable Interoperability

• Expose all functionality as services
  • Do not hide services under assumptions that someone would not find value in a service - often innovation can be bred from exposed services beyond it's original plan.
  • Follow the 'eat your own dogfood' mantra - in that all functionality should be a service that you consume.
• Use microservices built around business capabilities. Scope each service to a single purpose
  • Focus on smallest unit of purpose, and developing a single function.
• Run each IT service in its own process and have it communicate with other services through a well-defined interface, such as a HTTPS-based application programming interface (API)à
  • Ensure that services are accessible via common methodologies, and follow the Government of Canada Standards on APIs
• Run applications in containers
  • Ensure containers contain a single application, and build the smallest image possible.
  • Ensure containers are properly versioned and tagged.
• Leverage the GC Digital Exchange Platform for components such as the API Store, Messaging, and the GC Service Bus
  • Ensure APIs are discoverable on the API Store.