Éric Caire
Éric Caire is a Quebec politician who served as the Minister of Cybersecurity and Digital Technology. He recently resigned amid a scandal involving significant cost overruns exceeding $500 million related to the online platform of the Societe de l’assurance automobile du Quebec (SAAQ). Caire expressed that the controversy was detrimental to his government, despite denying any wrongdoing.
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Éric Caire, minister of cybersecurity and digital technology, resigned shortly after the report was released in February.
Legault was unaware of cost overruns at Quebec auto insurer until public scandal, he says
Canada· 2025-09-03
Éric Caire resigned as cybersecurity and digital technology minister earlier this year after the Auditor-General's report revealed cost overruns for SAAQclic.
Quebec Premier François Legault to testify on auto board scandalCanada· 2025-09-01
Éric Caire was forced to step down in February as cybersecurity and digital technology minister amid mounting pressure.
Quebec’s corruption police raiding headquarters of auto insurance boardCanada· 2025-06-18Éric Caire stepped down last Thursday as cybersecurity and digital technology minister.
Quebec auto board ‘fiasco’ could be the largest scandal since Charbonneau commissionCanada· 2025-03-04
Éric Caire maintained he'd been kept in the dark about the cost overruns and denied media reports that he had helped the auto insurance board hide the rising cost from the public.
Quebec Premier François Legault announces public inquiry into auto board scandalCanada· 2025-03-02
Éric Caire resigned over a scandal involving the auto insurance board’s online platform.
Gilles Bélanger named Quebec’s new digital technology minister following Éric Caire’s resignation over auto board scandalCanada· 2025-02-28
Cybersecurity Minister Éric Caire announced his resignation due to becoming a distraction amid concerns about cost overruns.
Politics Insider: Trump continues to tie tariffs to drugs ‘pouring into’ the United StatesCanada· 2025-02-28
Quebec Minister of Cybersecurity and Digital Technology Éric Caire resigned amid a scandal over cost overruns related to the auto insurance board’s online platform.
Quebec minister Éric Caire resigns over auto board scandalCanada· 2025-02-28
