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Canada is continuing to experience unprecedented volumes of asylum claims, resulting in backlogs across the in-Canada asylum system and significant costs to all levels of government.
The Government of Canada’s commitments to strengthen gun control and ban assault-style firearms.
Measures taken by the Government to address human trafficking.
RCMP Harassment/ Merlo Davidson Class Action Settlement
Critical applications for delivering services to Canadians are sometimes hosted in aging legacy data centres, depend on older coding languages, and run on legacy information technology infrastructure that requires significant maintenance. For these reasons, Shared Services Canada’s is supporting the Government of Canada in assessing, prioritizing and ensuring the health and stability of these critical applications.
Shared Services Canada plays a key role supporting public servants who require accessible technology through the Accessibility, Accommodations and Adaptive Computer Technology program. This program assists Public Service employees with disabilities, injuries or ergonomic requirements with their integration into the workplace, providing access to systems, programs, information, computers and other resources.
The Supplementary Estimates (A) 2019–2020 will be tabled in Parliament on December 5, 2019. Shared Services Canada is seeking additional funding through these Supplementary Estimates.
The Government of Canada Cloud first policy requirement recommends Cloud as the preferred option for delivering IT services. Shared Services Canada brokers Cloud services (for unclassified and Protected B data) for Government of Canada departments.
The Government of Canada is working to make the public service more agile and efficient through improvements to workplace technology, including the implementation of digital collaboration tools and elimination of outdated technology.