Mr. Karna Gupta at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On February 6th, 2012. See this statement in context.

February 6th, 2012 / 5:15 p.m.

President and Chief Executive Officer, Information Technology Association of Canada

I believe the overall IT needs to be centralized. There is no other way to move forward for any institution. For any institution of any size and scale to have completely separate organizations running IT infrastructure is, in today's technological sense, really unheard of. So in that sense, consolidation is absolutely critical to be efficient and effective.

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