A border-security computer system has been crashing repeatedly, disrupting truck traffic into Canada, in the latest technical foul-up by Shared Services Canada, the beleaguered federal IT agency. But the ACI system used to input the data to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), a network maintained by Shared Services Canada, has been notoriously unreliable. The import system foul-ups mirror recent outages in a separate export system, operated for CBSA by Statistics Canada but — like the ACI — maintained by Shared Services Canada. The repeated trade disruptions are only the latest evidence of continuing failures at Shared Services Canada, the troubled federal IT provider created in 2011 to manage Ottawa's assets efficiently. Shared Services Canada is the department responsible since 2011 for the federal government's IT services, including its data centres.

Source: CBC News November 05, 2017 09:56 UTC