Shared Services Canada to begin talks on allowing federal departments to ‘opt out’ from centralized IT service

The Trudeau government has loosened the rules requiring departments to centralize all IT services through Shared Services Canada, though it remains unclear if and how they will exercise this new power.

Shared Services Canada, which is the responsibility of Public Services and Procurement Minister Judy Foote, pictured, who took a leave of absence in April, has announced it intends to begin talks about moving some IT services to other departments. The Hill Times photograph by Rachel Aiello

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

July 19, 2017

Shared Services Canada is exploring transferring some responsibilities for federal information technology systems back to individual departments and agencies, in the wake of legislative changes weakening the agency's monopoly on digital services. Pat Breton,...

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