Shared Services Canada

The following contains a recount of Shared Services Canada's actions to work in a COVID-19 environment for the past year. This includes Shared Services Canada's response to COVID-19, but then describes what SSC has accomplished this past year throughout the pandemic. This publication also...

Three years ago, Mr. Gilles Dufour, Director General, Business Planning and Client Support Division, saw that Shared Services Canada (SSC) was sitting on a goldmine of data. However, silos of data systems across the department limited his ability to provide accurate analytics.

When people from around the world apply for a visitor visa, study or work permit, or permanent residence, they need to give their fingerprints and a photo, known as biometrics. Just recently, the Government of Canada (GC) made it easier for foreign nationals to provide biometrics when applying...

Shared Services Canada (SSC), in collaboration with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), recently upgraded the Government of Canada’s High Performance Computing (HPC) environment. ECCC’s Meteorological Service of Canada uses components of the environment, our supercomputers, to...