The scam that revealed chaos and a culture of fraud at Queen's Park
Sanjay Madan had an important job, and he was proud of it: director of the Ministry of Education’s iAccess Solutions Branch, just two rungs below the deputy minister. He oversaw a team of 150, mostly coders and analysts, who created software programs for various departments in the provincial government, a tech-savvy squad who could turn some politician’s idea into a functioning digital platform. Among his team’s projects was an effort to modernize the online function of the province’s student loans program, OSAP, work for which Madan received an industry award in 2010. Around the offi...