Public Accounts
What good are the public accounts?
A $3.1 billion question
In case you misunderstood him the first time
The Auditor General appeared before the Public Accounts Committee to explain his findings on the F-35 procurement.
‘Not since the Enron scandal have we heard such a ludicrous excuse’
Fresh from the inbox, a statement from interim Liberal leader Bob Rae.
The Commons: Tony Clement comes clean
The government knows which gazebos, toilets and bike racks were built with that $45.8 million
Once more into the breech: Liveblogging the Public Accounts Committee
Join ITQ as she attends her fourth – and, she can’t help but devoutly hope, last – committee meeting of the day.
ITQ Committee Lookahead Thingy
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Fraser to PCO: Put the comm plans down and nobody gets hurt
The relevant bit, from yesterday’s liveblog:
12:38:55 PM
David Christopherson just asked a very good question that produced an
even better answer from Fraser – the money quote, I would suggest.
There are certain statutory conditions that apply to all officers of
Parliament that give an “inappropriate role” to a minister or the
government itself. “My communications strategies aren’t going to PCO,”
she quips.
We’re from PCO and we’re here to help you
Hey, remember yesterday, when I liveblogged Auditor General Sheila Fraser’s appearance before Public Accounts , and it was almost a total write-off as far as actual news? Until she told the committee that the Privy Council Office has issued a draft policy that would force her office, and every other ostensibly independent officer of Parliament, to hand over copies of their respective communications strategies?