The Policy on Management of Information Technology is no longer in effect. It was replaced by the Policy on Service and Digital and the Directive on Service and Digital on April 1, 2020.
Objective
Expected results
The expected results of this policy are:
Governance and oversight
IT workforce management
Ensuring the development of talent management and succession plans that:
Departmental IT
Supporting the use of cloud services first by ensuring that:
Government-wide IT
IT Information
Monitoring, providing guidance and recommending corrective actions regarding the following:
IT workforce
Providing government-wide functional leadership regarding the following:
Deputy heads
Government-wide
The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat will monitor IT management performance of departments, the IT management function across government, and compliance with this policy in a variety of ways, including but not limited to, the following:
Note: This section identifies other departments who have a role in the management of IT. In and of itself, this section does not confer an authority.
The Canada School of Public Service is responsible for the development and delivery of a government wide core learning strategy and program for all public service employees involved in the management of IT in consultation with the relevant functional authority centres and consistent with the Policy on Learning, Training and Development.
Public Services and Procurement Canada is responsible for providing services for federal departments and agencies, to support them in the achievement of their mandated objectives as their central purchasing agent, linguistic authority, real property manager, treasurer, accountant, integrity adviser, and pay and pension administrator.
Public Works and Government Services Canada is responsible for the management and operation of the common and shared IT services in consultation with departments and the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
Shared Services Canada is responsible for providing certain services related to email, data centres, networks and end-user technology devices. Use of SSC services is required for specified government departments; however other departments and agencies may also choose to use these services. Whenever possible, SSC is responsible for delivering these services in a consolidated and standardized manner. Some of SSC’s services are provided on a cost-recovery basis. SSC also provides government-wide operational coordination of cyber security events, including IT incident response and recovery, and supports government-wide decision-making with respect to incident mitigation. In exceptional circumstances, the Minister responsible for SSC can personally authorize a department to provide itself with otherwise mandatory services (or obtain them from a third party).
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat is responsible for establishing the overall government-wide strategic directions for IT in consultation with deputy heads; identifying areas that offer significant government-wide benefits or are of importance to the government; and leading initiatives to achieve government-wide solutions and the implementation of government-wide directions with the appropriate common service or shared service organizations that are of importance to the government.
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is the lead technical authority for information technology (IT) security including the provision of leadership, advice and guidance for technical matters related to information technology (IT) security. It helps ensure the protection of electronic information and of information infrastructures of importance to the Government of Canada, and fulfils government-wide functions by identifying emerging cyber threats, monitoring government networks and systems, and helping to protect against, and mitigate potential impacts of cyber security events. CSE leads the development of trusted sources of supply for government and critical infrastructure alongside mitigating the risk of untrusted equipment. CSE is the national authority for communications security (COMSEC), including the procurement, distribution, control and use of cryptographic devices and encryption keying material for national security systems. CSE is also Canada’s national authority for signals intelligence (SIGINT).
Please direct enquiries about this policy to the senior official appointed by your deputy head for the purposes of this policy. For interpretation of this policy, this senior official should contact:
Chief Information Officer Branch
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Ottawa ON K1A 0R5
E-mail: Cio-dpi@tbs-sct.gc.ca