A former CEO of the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ), Éric Ducharme, was not alarmed in 2020 by the difficulties encountered by SAAQclic when he was a senior official at the Treasury Board.

Ducharme began his testimony Thursday before the Gallant Commission, which is examining the SAAQ’s failed digital shift.

Before taking the helm of the Crown corporation, Ducharme was Secretary of the Treasury Board from 2018 to 2023. When he was informed of a postponement of the SAAQclic rollout schedule, Ducharme was not worried.

After a meeting with then-CEO Nathalie Tremblay in October 2020, “the level of concern was not very high,” Ducharme testified.

“Yes, there are issues. But I think Nathalie Tremblay was in control of the files. … We have control of the project. Overruns, I

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