Treasury Board president slammed for transparency gaps in spending following ‘damning’ PBO reports

Two hundred thousand civil servants—or 70 per cent of the federal workforce—are working from home, says Jean-Yves Duclos, offering these figures for the first time.

Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclosis, pictured March 16 at the National Press Theatre, says his department reintroduced the main spending estimates in October, 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 SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

November 5, 2020

Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos was pressed over the government's spending secrecy at committee following the release of "damning" reports from Canada's budget watchdog, with MPs calling on him to answer for a lack of fiscal transparency amid unprecedented p...

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