Karl Malenfant, the head of the SAAQclic project, did not present a complete picture to the then Ministers of Transport and Cybersecurity and Digital Technology, François Bonnardel and Éric Caire, during meetings to review the progress of the work in September 2021 and June 2022.
On the fifth day of Karl Malenfant’s testimony before the Gallant Commission on Tuesday in Montreal, he presented a “roadmap” submitted during the meeting with Minister Bonnardel, as well as several others detailing the financial progress of the project.
The roadmap presented to the minister showed a budget of $682 million, while indicating that the $458 million contract with the Alliance between SAP-LGS (IBM) would be sufficient to cover the second phase of delivery, with the remainder to come from the budgets