Ah, yes, government workers and technology, quite the perfect match……..NOT ! If Canadian government workers are anywhere near as “competent” as the government workers in the U.S., er, er, well that explains the problems here. You can bet that no capacity planning to handle peak thresholds and no server redundancy scenarios were in place at all, at the time of the crash. Looks like that summer intern may get the boot, and be forced to return to school earlier than anticipated.