House Finance Committee could ask all Commons committees to hold pre-budget consultations next year

Finance Committee held an in-camera meeting last week and will hold at least one more to consider ideas to change the pre-budget consultation process.

House Finance Committee chairman Wayne Easter, right, pictured with Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner, wants his committee to narrow down the focus on pre-budget consultations for next year and 'not try to be all things to all people.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY ABBAS RANA

December 19, 2016

PARLIAMENT HILL—The House Finance Committee, which has been holding private post-mortem meetings on its pre-budget consultations for the 2017 federal budget, is considering asking all the Commons committees to help conduct pre-budget consultations next year in an effort to improve the process...

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