PBO preparing to tackle challenge of costing party platforms in 2019, with lessons learned by recent practice run

‘I think it will help to make perhaps the next election the most transparent ever if the PBO is involved in costing platforms,’ says NDP MP Peter Julian.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Jean-Denis Fréchette says his office will be ready to take on the new responsibility of costing party platforms, on request, during the next federal election, with plans underway to double the number of analysts on staff and strike MOUs with federal departments to facilitate this upcoming work. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

April 30, 2018

Questions remain over how the parliamentary budget officer’s new responsibility to cost party platforms during the next federal election will shake out, but the office is already busy preparing, with a practice-run recently completed and plans to double its staff and strike information-sharing agr...

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