[ttt111222333]

> Canada to scrap IBM payroll plan gone awry costing $1B. The Phoenix project was originally chosen by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Conservative predecessors 10 years ago to centralize the government payroll.

Is it me or is this wording terrible?

Trudeau is not a Conservative. It makes it sound like it is Trudeau's party that caused the problem.

[mattnewton]

Yeah why is his name there at all?

[bcholmes]

And why isn't "The Harper Government"(TM) not named?

[loufe]

I'm not a fan of the convservatives but it's still unfair to place the blame of a bad choice of client on a political party. A lot of non-partisans were involved in getting the project running.

[tempestn]

Sure, but it would make more sense to refer to them by name than as "Justin Trudeau's Conservative predecessors" or whatever.