Civil Circles

Phoenix is the gift that keeps on taking

The public service has continued to function despite the ongoing payroll system debacle, but people, and the government’s foundation, will crack under the strain.

Public servants rallied in Ottawa on Feb. 28 to mark the third anniversary of the launch of the troubled Phoenix payroll system. Nearly two years retired, Andrew Caddell is still feeling the Phoenix effects. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

March 13, 2019

OTTAWA—I am pissed off with the government of Canada. Not with the current debacle/debate over SNC-Lavalin, the Prime Minister's Office, the attorney general or the director of public prosecutions. Not even the clerk of the Privy Council, who showed he is, first among all things, the prime minist...

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