OttawaNow openly scoffing at the Parliamentary Budget OfficerThe opening exchange from this afternoon’s QP. Various laughs were heard from the government side at the Prime Minister’s use of...
OttawaHow the deficit is being eliminatedThe Parliamentary Budget Officer hasn’t received enough information to do a full analysis, but he says it seems like government...
OttawaBudgetary stripteaseThe Parliamentary Budget Officer has released a new update on what information he’s received from the Harper government. In...
OttawaJohn Baird’s guide to polite conversationThe Commons: ’So much for the Leader of the Opposition raising the tone of political debate in this place’
OttawaThe Commons: The space-time continuum and the memory holeThe Speaker called for oral questions and the game of charades was rejoined
OttawaWhat does Parliament know about what the government is doing? And what does the government know about what the government is doing?Jason Fekete reviews the auditor general’s findings . Colin Horgan places this in the context of the Harper government’s standoff...
OttawaThe Commons: Explaining is losingThe Scene. Of the Petronas decision , Thomas Mulcair stood and suggested Christian Paradis had behaved like a "thief in the...
OttawaOff to court after all?While it seemed a week ago that government departments were prepared to cooperate with the Parliamentary Budget Officer, it now...
OttawaGreat work, but never mindIn June, Tony Clement commended the government operations committee on its study of estimates reform. This week, Tony Clement...
OttawaA progress report from the PBOThe office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer has produced a chart to explain which departments have complied with his request...