Pandemic throws line-by-line approval of billions of dollars in spending off course

The main spending estimates won’t be approved until at least December and may be considered alongside the next instalment of supplementary estimates, says Conservative critic Luc Berthold.

President of the Treasury Board Jean-Yves Duclosis pictured March 16 at the National Press Theatre for a press conference on the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. His department reintroduced the main spending estimates, first tabled in February, which have yet to be approved due to the pandemic. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

October 7, 2020

Billions of dollars in spending to keep government operations going have yet to be formally approved by the House after the pandemic forced MPs to defer scrutiny to December, throwing off the usual course of parliamentary business.

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