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The NDP’s Randall Garrison isn’t too happy about how Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is dealing with Phoenix pay problems affecting Department of National Defence employees. Garrison told the House of Commons Monday during Question Period that in November during a committee meeting, Sajjan had promised to look into Phoenix pay issues from three DND employees in Garrison’s riding. That riding includes CFB Esquimalt in BC.

Sajjan apparently promised to fix those problems before Christmas. One of the DND employees, a single parent, had been stiffed more than $20,000 in pay because of the problem-plagued Phoenix pay system. “Two months later the three who received the minister’s personal assurances have not even been contacted let alone had their pay problems fixed,” Garrison said in Question Period.

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Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough, whose department oversees the Phoenix pay system, responded that she would look into the three cases immediately.