Time to review ‘Cabinet confidence,’ say MPs, critics

Feds use it to not release financial information to House Finance Committee, Parliamentary Budget Office. But critics say it's wrong.

It's time for an independent review of what constitutes a "Cabinet confidence," say opposition MPs and critics after the federal government recently used the reason to refuse financial figures to the House Finance Committee and to Canada's Parliamentary Budget Office.

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