Like Phoenix, the Social Security Tribunal is another cost-cutting fiasco

In 2012, the government decided unilaterally to end a system that had served claimants well for more than 70 years, replacing it with one that would muddle together appeals from a variety of federal programs with no synergies.

Conservative MP Diane Finley, when she was human resources minister in 2012, ushered in the new Social Security Tribunal to replace work previously done by four separate tribunals. That didn't go well, say commissioners at the Employment Insurance Commission of Canada.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY JUDITH ANDREW, PIERRE LALIBERTE

June 27, 2018

The recent exchange between the auditor general and the clerk of the Privy Council regarding the Phoenix fiasco and its implications has raised a nu...

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