Fixing Phoenix payroll problems cost Ottawa $5.1-billion, says federal official

A top federal official said fixing the payroll problems caused by Phoenix cost taxpayers more than $5-billion – and they’ll keep paying extra to run two public service payroll platforms at once as Ottawa weans itself off the problem-plagued system.Alex Benay, associate deputy minister at Public Services and Procurement Canada, said the alternative to running the Phoenix system in tandem with its replacement, Dayforce, would have been worse.