Don’t touch the PBO

When Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters the deficit will be more than $50-billion, up from January's estimate of $34-billion, it was the beginning of more bad news for Canadians and stepped up efforts in the sometimes bad political theatre in the daily Question Period.

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