Even if she has been dismissed from her duties as a computer owner, the ex-director general of the Saaqclic project will remain the employment of the Crown Company and will find her status as a manager. Special terms will be entrusted to him.
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Last week, the vice-president of the digital experience and one of the architects of the Fiasco Saaqclic, Caroline Fold-Busque, was raised from her functions.
However, the SAAQ cannot dismiss the manager. It is quite rare, in the public service, that a vice-president is demoted, according to a government source.
For the moment, Ms. Fold-Busque is on vacation, but on her return, she will find her level 1 framework status in the Quebec public service.
“The mandates that can be entrusted to him are not yet determined. We are to assess the possibilities, ”said Gino Desrosiers. The SAAQ ensures that these mandates will not receive information technologies (TI), or the CASA/SAAQCLIC project.
In addition, the manager will be entitled to the same employment conditions as other level 1 executives in the public service, including salary processing.
According to the Treasury Board website, it will receive a salary between $ 140,000 and $ 190,000. By 2027, this salary will exceed $ 200,000.
Links with Malenfant
For many years, the manager was Karl Malenfant’s right-hand man, ex-vice-president of the SAAQ digital experience and manager of the Saaqclic project. At her retirement, the one who had been general manager of the 2016 to 2023 project resumed the torch.
Their collaboration had started at Hydro-Québec, while the two companions led there a digital transformation also qualified as “fiasco”.
She was appointed in 2024 by the Board of Directors “following a rigorous recruitment and selection process, objective and coordinated by an external firm,” said the media relations coordinator, Gino Desrosiers.
However, the SAAQ and the Minister of Transport, Geneviève Guilbault, are trying somehow to turn the page on the Saaqclic episode. A cleaning has been started to appoint managers who have not been linked to fiasco.
This is why Mrs. Fold-Busque was dismissed from her duties.
It is the current vice-president of IT affairs of Retraite Québec, Luc Leblanc, who will be appointed to succeed him. He will have the challenge of straightening the bar of this IT fiasco from August 25.
She defended her work
Last April, in an email sent to SAAQ employees and obtained by our parliamentary office, Caroline Fold-Busque defended her work and that of the organization. She assured that “the execution of the CASA/SAAQCLIC project and other contracts is rigorously framed”.
Sources have said that the ex-director imported Saaqclic a so-called “agile” method in all projects. Since then, problems have been spread like a virus, it is said.