The minister of Digital Government (french: ministre du Gouvernement numérique) was a

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in the

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with responsibility for

Shared Services Canada Shared Services Canada (SSC; french: Services partagés Canada (SPC)) is an agency of the Government of Canada responsible for advancing, consolidating and providing information technology services across federal government departments. It was est ...

(SSC)—the federal department that manages and maintains

information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

services throughout the

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, as well as the digital strategies and programs of the

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS; french: Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada, SCT) is the administrative branch of the Treasury Board of Canada (the committee of ministers responsible for the financial management of the fe ...

. (The first two ministers of Digital Government were also concurrently the

president of the Treasury Board The president of the Treasury Board () is a minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet. The president is the chair of the Treasury Board of Canada (a committee of Cabinet in the Privy Council) and is the minister responsible for the Treasury B ...

.) This position was introduced in the

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under the premiership of

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. Prior to 2018, responsibility for oversight of SSC was in the portfolio of the

minister of Public Services and Procurement The minister of public services and procurement (french: ministre des services publics et de l’approvisionnement) is the minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the Government of Canada's "common service ...

. In 2021, the position was abolished and responsibility for SSC was returned to the Minister of Public Services and Procurement.

List of ministers

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Digital Government E-government (short for electronic government) is the use of technological communications devices, such as computers and the Internet, to provide public services to citizens and other persons in a country or region. E-government offers new ...