Central vote shifts accountability, means MPs must approve $7-billion before program plans in place, critics say

'The reality is a big $7-billion ask will come to a single committee, with roughly a dozen members and they will be required to provide scrutiny in a short period of time,' says Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre.

Though he said it was unnecessary, Treasury Board President Scott Brison last week agreed to an opposition demand to include exact budget spending in the main estimates bill, making the controversial central vote legally binding.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

May 9, 2018

Critics warn the $7-billion central vote in the main estimates on more than 220 budget measures that haven’t made it through the Treasury Board’s vetting process means MPs will no longer get the same level of information on programs before they vote, weakening scr...

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