There's no way for us to know that. All we know is that the department did not go back to Treasury Board. In our opinion, they should have gone back to Treasury Board, either to ask for more money or to tell Treasury Board they'd had to cut back on the functionality of the system, and that consequently the system would not be able to produce the $70-million-a-year savings they had originally said it would. They had a responsibility to go back, one way or the other.
On May 31st, 2018. See this statement in context.