Mr. Antonio Utano at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On February 22nd, 2024. See this statement in context.

February 22nd, 2024 / 1:20 p.m.

Director General, Information Technology Branch, Canada Revenue Agency, As an Individual

I don't have evidence, but I think there was an assumption from Botler AI that Mr. MacDonald and I were aware that this other initiative was going on, but we were not. It was unbeknownst to us. We were not part of those email chains.

When human resources asked us to stop the feasibility study—I'm calling it “project one”—they are the client, so we stopped it. What happened, I think inadvertently, is that we caused issues with this other project that we were not aware of. I think it explains why Botler is so angry.

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