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SSC

Shared Services Canada

In plain English

The organization that provides common IT infrastructure — networks, data centres, email and device services — to many departments.

Where you’ll see it

IT infrastructure and device requests.

Example

That request goes to SSC.

The central IT services organization handles it, not your department.

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