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Expenses related to the federal government’s web renewal project are already skyrocketing and the initiative is only in its second official year.

The push to gather a vast majority of the government’s departments and agencies under the Canada.ca web address — as opposed to the various disparate websites they previously had — has already cost the federal government at least $9.2 million, of which $5.4 million has been paid. The contract, which was awarded to Adobe Corp. in March 2015, was originally valued at $1.54 million.

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And the true cost of getting Canada.ca fully operation will be millions more, however an exact dollar amount remains elusive.

The price of the project rockets upward when factoring in the costs associated with getting each of the government’s departments and agencies ready for the switch to Canada.ca. Each of the departments that are preparing to switch to Canada.ca are responsible for building any costs associated with the website switch into their existing budgets.