Shared Services Canada is awarding contracts to companies to provide cloud computing services to the federal government for 25 years

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Given its track record, taxpayers should be skeptical of the federal government trying to oversee the production of typewriters, let alone locking in a 25-year contract on an evolving technology.

But that’s what the government is gearing up to do.

Shared Services Canada is awarding contracts to companies to provide cloud computing services to the federal government for 25 years.

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Taxpayers don’t yet know how much this will cost. But given the government’s track record on tech, taxpayers should expect to lose their shirts, pants, watches and wallets for the next two-and-a-half decades.

To understand why Shared Services needs to back away from this plan, let’s look at the government’s failed history with new technologies.

The ArriveCan app was launched in April 2020 with an initial cost of $80,000. In 2022, taxpayers learned ArriveCan costs somehow ballooned to $25........

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