Current and former staff members of the office of Geneviève Guilbault, Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, claimed that they only learned of cost overruns for SAAQclic last February with the report from the Auditor General of Quebec (VGQ).

However, documentation referring to an increase in the contract bill with the consortium was sent to the office in 2023, according to what was revealed during the Gallant Commission on Friday morning.

The then chief of staff, Geneviève Cantin, acknowledged that she had been made aware of the contractual strategy in the summer of 2023 for the SAAQ’s IT modernization project called CASA.

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The document presents a $45.7 million “addendum” con

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