Treasury Board
Explained: How the Harper government put spending on ice
If you’re in government and want to restrain your own spending, you make it harder to move money out the door
What’s the answer to the missing $3.1 billion?
Either way, it’s time to reform the estimates process
The Commons: Thomas Mulcair thinks he’s found a boondoggle
The money’s not missing, it’s just not perfectly accounted for
UPDATED: Canada’s diplomats in legal strike position
Paul Wells on the potential for a strike by foreign-service officers
Spending to sell yourself while cutting billions
While fighting the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s attempts to review its budget cuts, the Harper government is spending millions to advertise a budget that cuts billions in spending.
Meanwhile, at the Defence Department
The Citizen discovers why a military truck procurement was halted at the last minute.
When will the lifecycle cost be explained?
The full lifecycle cost of the F-35 remains elusive.
The Harper government responds
A release issued by the offices of Julian Fantino, Peter MacKay, Rona Ambrose and Christian Paradis.
Checking the math
The NDP’s Alexandre Boulerice has dispatched a letter to Tony Clement for the purposes of clarifying the government’s accounting, specifically as it relates to a budget line for grants to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. The full text of the letter below.
The quiet cuts
The Defence Department is planning to cut 250 jobs. Treasury Board will eliminate 84 jobs.
What Tony Clement meant when he said those things
Last month, Tony Clement seemed to raise the possibility of new or higher user fees. A day later he seemed to disavow the possibility of new user fees. And a few days after he seemed to categorically dismiss the possibility. And so here is how his office now explains plans by various departments to increase user fees.
Better government through datasets
Treasury Board President Stockwell Day has launched the government of Canada’s official open data portal: data.gc.ca.