Feds should name an interim Parliamentary budget officer for next budget, anything less ‘a management failure,’ says PBO Page

The federal government has the power to name in interim Parliamentary Budget Officer. It’s just choosing not to.

The government is choosing not to use its legal power to name an interim Parliamentary budget officer, but Canada’s outgoing PBO Kevin Page says Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government should use it to quickly appoint someone currently in the PBO to take over when the five-y...

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