Government ‘didn’t pay enough attention’ to pay system troubles: Trudeau
OTTAWA — The federal government failed its employees when it didn’t properly heed warning signs about its problem-plagued Phoenix pay system before rolling it out almost a year ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted Thursday.
“I’ll admit it,” Trudeau told a frustrated civil servant as he fielded questions from the public during the first major event of a cross-Canada whistle-stop tour in Kingston, Ont.
“This government … didn’t pay enough attention to the challenges and the warning signs on the transition we were overseeing.”
Added the prime minister: “We are working extremely hard to fix this.”