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Backbenchers gird to strip TB’s budget-making power

All-party committee wants new funding mechanism for Parliamentary officers

An all-party group of MPs wants to strip Treasury Board's well-established power to set the budgets for the federal government's small group of Parliamentary officers, including Information Commissioner John Reid who says he's in the "midst of a crisis of under-funding."

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