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Campaigning politicians blasted Premier Christine Fr\u00e9chette on Monday over yet another Quebec IT project that is running over budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marie-Claude Sarrazin, the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois\u00a0candidate for the Groulx riding, told reporters that, if elected, a PQ government would place a moratorium on all ongoing government IT projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot continue down this path,\u201d Sarrazin said. A PQ government would instead audit all IT projects to \u201censure that the requirements analysis has been carried out properly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarrazin\u2019s comments come in the wake of a Radio-Canada report which found that Sant\u00e9 Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s digital transformation project, known as SIFA, is running over budget.<\/a><\/p>\n It was initially slated to cost $96 million, but, according to a report obtained by Radio-Canada, its cost is being re-evaluated at $1 billion.<\/p>\n The potential cost overruns recall the SAAQclic fiasco \u2014 the botched digital transformation of Quebec\u2019s auto insurance board which ran hundreds of millions of dollars over budget<\/a> and led to the Gallant commission, which concluded that SAAQ administrators lied to the government to hide the scale of the problems.<\/p>\n Ruba Ghazal, co-spokesperson for Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire, also took aim at the government over the report. <\/p>\n \u201cThe cost overrun is staggering,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s Quebecers\u2019 money. Christine Fr\u00e9chette should be feeling embarrassed this morning, because she\u2019s responsible for this.\u201d<\/p>\n