As someone who missed 9 months of pay and went 3.5 years with my pay being wrong or effing wrong I have a dog in this fight.
Oct 2015 election won by Liberal Party
Feb 2016 implementation of Phoenix
From Wikipedia
By April 2016,
CBC News reported that there were thousands of public servants experiencing Phoenix payroll problems with initial complaints about underpayments. The
PSAC, a federal employee union, called for the
Liberal government to delay the second phase of the Phoenix roll out.
[18] Despite this request, the federal government rolled out Phoenix to the remaining 67 departments on April 21, 2016, and decommissioned the old system.
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The Harper government filled the dumpster with promises of efficiency
and the sunny days, sunny ways crew torched it off, not happy with a small dumpster fire they started a huge tire fire that still burns today. Despite what anybody might tell you 4 years in, the system still can't count to potato.