Comment by bryanlarsen
3 days ago
Oh, it's much more interesting than that. Phoenix started as an attempt to create a gun registry. Ottawa had a bunch of civil servants that'd be reasonably compotent at overseeing such a thing, but the government decided that it wanted to build it in Miramichi, New Brunswick. The relevant people refused to move to Miramichi, so the project was built using IBM contractors and newbies. The resulting fiasco was highly predictable.
Then when Harper came in he killed the registry mostly for ideological reasons.
But then he didn't want to destroy a bunch of jobs in Miramichi, so he gave them another project to turn into a fiasco.
> Then when Harper came in he killed the registry mostly for ideological reasons.
The registry was started mostly for ideological reasons.
Sure, that's obvious. What isn't obvious is why it was killed. It could have been killed because it was a giant cluster@#$%, that would have been reason enough. But if it would have been killed for that reason, they wouldn't have let the cluster%$## spread.