Liberals are defending the Canadian government’s handling of the ongoing Phoenix payroll fiasco as tough questions continue to be asked, footage published in The Globe and Mail shows.
Carla Qualtrough - minister of public services, procurement and accessibility - told the house, “Public servants of Canada deserve to be paid on time and accurately for their work. We have dealt with about 7,000 cases, we are continuing to do this very important work. We won’t stop until everything is solved.”
New Democratic Party MP, Daniel Blaikie, said “It has been three years since the ill-fated Phoenix roll out and we’re still hearing the same answers we heard three years ago when the whole thing started. It’s for shame, federal workers have lost their homes. It’s put strain on their family.”
He went on to say that “Even making simple changes to the law so that workers don’t have to pay back gross pay on the net pay they receive, haven’t been done”.
A 2018 report from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada declared the Phoenix payroll project to be an “incomprehensible failure” and recommended internal audits and oversight groups be used for major IT projects in future.
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Liberals are defending the Canadian government’s handling of the ongoing Phoenix payroll fiasco as tough questions continue to be asked, footage published in The Globe and Mail shows.
Carla Qualtrough - minister of public services, procurement and accessibility - told the house, “Public servants of Canada deserve to be paid on time and accurately for their work. We have dealt with about 7,000 cases, we are continuing to do this very important work. We won’t stop until everything is solved.”
New Democratic Party MP, Daniel Blaikie, said “It has been three years since the ill-fated Phoenix roll out and we’re still hearing the same answers we heard three years ago when the whole thing started. It’s for shame, federal workers have lost their homes. It’s put strain on their family.”
He went on to say that “Even making simple changes to the law so that workers don’t have to pay back gross pay on the net pay they receive, haven’t been done”.
A 2018 report from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada declared the Phoenix payroll project to be an “incomprehensible failure” and recommended internal audits and oversight groups be used for major IT projects in future.
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