Malcolm Allen at the Public Accounts Committee

On May 27th, 2015. See this statement in context.

May 27th, 2015 / 4 p.m.

NDP

I'll read it for you, Madam:

In the case of the Entry/ Exit Initiative, the Agency began work with Citizenship and Immigration Canada—

—“Agency” being CBSA—

— in October 2013 to draft project deliverables and milestones. As of September 2014, these were still being finalized. The Agency also changed a key component in favour of a new solution (master data management) that has caused Citizenship and Immigration Canada to revisit the components it is building.

So as much as Mr. Normand said indeed there are other agencies—and I take that at face value; it's probably absolutely true, IT is a complex business—in this particular case that the Auditor General points out, you changed your mind as an agency and caused them to go back and do something that actually caused you a delay.

Is that correct?

See context to find out what was said next.