Budget promises to probe departmental spending, assets for ‘waste’ and inefficiency

Clean-tech and innovation programs will also go under the microscope. And the government will spend $7.5-million per year, indefinitely, to improve parliamentary translation services.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stop to pose for photos before heading into the House of Commons on March 22, where Mr. Morneau delivered the 2017 budget.
Public service managers, take note: Scott Brison might be auditing your work this year. The government will take a magnifying lens to the spending habits of at least three federal departments before the next budget, “with the aim to eliminate poorly targeted and inefficient programs, wasteful spe...

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