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The Human Damage The damage is much more profound and far-reaching than that. Almost overnight, thousands of hard-working and dedicated employees who had given years of their lives as public servants were thrust into financial hardship when they were paid incorrectly and many were not paid at all. Bills went unpaid, thousands of hours spent on calls with the CRA trying to get a reprieve from tax debts, homes were lost, marriages left in
came down to 3 critical points: inadequate planning, rushed implementation and insufficient testing. What started out as a $5.7 million project, and with an estimated saving of around $70 million, has cost the Canadian government a whopping $2.2 billion to fix without even fully rectifying the issues to date. But the monetary value, nor the reputational damage, of correcting the problems does not reflect the true cost of the botched project.
s estimated that 65% of Americans are living ck, and a third of the UK population is in the g on their employers to process their salaries od to ensure they can afford to put dinner on the table for another week or month. “
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