Prime Minister taps career bureaucrat as nominee for Parliamentary Budget Officer

Yves Giroux will take over an office that has been given an expanded role and provided more resources, albeit with a sizeable new task of costing party platforms for the 2019 federal election.

Nominee to be the Canadas next Parliamentary Budget Officer, Yves Giroux.Photograph courtesy of the Prime Minister's Office

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BY JOLSON LIM

June 19, 2018

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday, June 19, he is nominating career public servant Yves Giroux to serve as the next Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), a post that will have to take on a large and perhaps politically contentious task of costing party p...

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