Will the fall budget cycle be the spark MPs need to actually study spending?
No, most MPs aren’t forensic accountants, but that’s not the role they’re fulfilling when looking at financial plans—they’re supposed to be parsing them with a people-focused lens, and asking whether the spending works for the people who put them in office.
The budget that will be tabled in November won’t just be the Carney government’s first formal financial plan, but it will also be the first in what is supposed to be new era of federal budget cycles.
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