Meanwhile, back at the department that gave us Phoenix Pay …

There was something rather odd about the sequence of Auditor General Michael Ferguson’s two recent reports on the botched rollout of Phoenix, the federal government’s two-year-old pay system.
Last November, Ferguson examined how Public Services and Procurement Canada — the department in charge of the Phoenix project — was trying to resolve tens of thousands of pay issues that erupted in 2016. Not well, he concluded.
With his latest report, published Tuesday, Ferguson and