OTTAWA — The latest report from the auditor general says it will take years and hundreds of millions of dollars more to fix the federal government's broken civil service pay system.
Michael Ferguson's fall report is also critical of the taxman for giving Canadians bad information — that is, when Canadians who try to call the Canada Revenue Agency are finally able to get through.
In his latest report to Parliament, Ferguson says the Phoenix pay system has left 150,000 civil servants in the financial lurch.
And he predicts it'll take years and cost much more than the roughly half a billion dollars already earmarked to fix it.
He cites Australia as an example, where similar pay system problems cost $1.2 billion and took seven years to rectify, and still aren't completely fixed.
The report also says the government doesn't know why fewer Indigenous children are enrolled in its oral health program than in previous years, and that women in federal prisons remain behind bars past their parole eligibility dates and are ill-prepared for release when they do get out.
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