Quebec should respect the suggestions of the Gallant Fee and develop its personal IT options, even when this may increasingly result in price overruns, says Well being Minister Sonia Bélanger.
“It’s upsetting, nevertheless it’s finest observe,” she replied to Parti Québécois MNA Joël Arseneau, who questioned her Tuesday morning in regards to the prices of main IT tasks in the course of the evaluation of the Well being Ministry’s finances.
Arseneau particularly addressed the appointment scheduling IT undertaking, whose prices have skyrocketed from $18 million to $126 million, as revealed by a Radio-Canada investigation.
The minister declined to substantiate a precise complete quantity, stating solely that the undertaking price “over $100 million.”
In keeping with Radio-Canada, after asking the agency Petal to develop an orchestrator, the federal government reportedly determined to start out the method yet again to develop its personal resolution.
On Tuesday, Bélanger defended this determination, saying she wished to respect the suggestions of the Gallant Fee.
“There may be one very, very clear advice within the Gallant report: to make sure that the federal government can develop its autonomy, and that’s extraordinarily essential.
“So, it’s on this context that the Quebec Ministry of Well being determined to award a contract to CGI in order that the federal government might have its personal system.
“They develop it, after which it’s as much as us, as an alternative of being continually on the mercy of a agency that develops a product with us however then goes and sells it to the remainder of the world. That’s the path.
“I perceive that that is disturbing, nevertheless it’s the appropriate observe we’re doing,” argued Bélanger.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
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