The Gallant commission, which is leading the public inquiry into the failed rollout of SAAQclic,\u00a0is considering summoning Quebec Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault to testify.<\/p>\n
The premier has not been formally summoned, but according to Radio-Canada sources, Legault\u00a0won’t be afforded any special treatment\u00a0if the commission goes ahead with the idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the premier’s office told Radio-Canada Legault would be ready to co-operate if the commission deems his participation necessary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Among those scheduled to testify this week are former cybersecurity\u00a0minister \u00c9ric Caire, Health Minister Christian Dub\u00e9 and Treasury Board President Sonia Lebel. Dub\u00e9\u00a0held Lebel’s current role from 2018 to 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Transport Minister\u00a0Genevi\u00e8ve Guilbault and Fran\u00e7ois Bonnardel, who preceded her in the role before becoming public security minister,\u00a0concluded their testimonies last week.<\/p>\n
SAAQclic\u00a0is\u00a0the digital platform that was supposed to streamline several processes conducted by Quebec’s automobile insurance board, known as the SAAQ. The platform was launched in February 2023\u00a0with a $500-million cost overrun, according to a report published earlier this year by\u00a0Quebec auditor general Guylaine Leclerc.<\/p>\n
She highlighted serious transparency issues around the true cost of the project at different steps of its development.<\/p>\n
A week after the report, Caire stepped down from his role as cybersecurity minister, though he continued to defend his\u00a0handling of the SAAQclic file.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gallant commission, which is leading the public inquiry into the failed rollout of SAAQclic,\u00a0is considering summoning Quebec…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-96797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}