immigrantscanada.com

Independent topical source of current affairs, opinion and issues, featuring stories making news in Canada from immigrants, newcomers, minorities & ethnic communities' point of view and interests.

Price Tag: Treasury Board and Michael Ferguson

price tag: Ferguson said the government is lowballing both the three-year timeline and the 540 million price tag for a long-term, efficient solution, and called on the Treasury Board of Canada and Public Services and Procurement Canada to track and publicly report on the plan, according to CBC. But despite the major problems, he said it would be wrong to scrap the Phoenix system now after seven years of development and implementation. In his fall slate of six audits, Auditor General Michael Ferguson finds that successive governments have failed to address the Phoenix payroll mess, leaving thousands of employees overpaid, underpaid or not paid at all. If they started all over again, it's hard to see how they would actually end up in a better situation, he said. Highlights from the fall 2017 auditor general report Canadians getting bad advice from the taxman auditor Auditor criticizes misconduct at military college Answers to 9 questions on Canada immigration The Phoenix system already cost 310 million to create and implement, which means the overall cost to build and fix the program is edging toward 1 billion. I think at this point, their only real option is to try and resolve the problem within the system as it exists right now. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.