OTTAWA — Opposition members of Parliament grilled Treasury Board Minister Jean-Yves Duclos about the government’s COVID-19 measures, after a recent report lamented Ottawa’s “lacking” transparency on its massive emergency spending plans.
In a study that NDP MP Matthew Green called a “bombshell report,” the Parliamentary Budget Officer on Wednesday said that Treasury Board officials had declined to provide crucial details to the PBO in its review of the Liberal government’s pay equity program, which aims to level out pay disparities between men and women in the public service.
A second report by the PBO, also released Wednesday, found shortcomings in the level of detail provided on $79 billon in proposed government spending, making it “more challenging for parliamentarians to perform their critical role in overseeing Government spending and holding it to account,” the report said.
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