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Public Services Minister Judy Foote is the political minister overall responsible for fixing the Phoenix pay system, a colossal failure that has seen tens of thousands of federal employees over and underpaid, and whose cleanup costs were cited at $50-million as of 2016 alone, writes Amanda Clarke. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY AMANDA CLARKE

April 10, 2017

If you’re like most people, you probably don’t spend too much time thinking about government IT—that is, until it fails you. You’ve felt the sting of these failings while waiting in line, exhausted and impatient, for a government service you can’t believe isn’t yet available on the web....

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