Main estimates asks jump 3.8 per cent to reach $449.2-billion in budgetary spending
Comparing the 2023-24 and 2024-25 main estimates, The Hill Times identified 30 departments and agencies for which spending authorizations will change by $100-million or more.
Feds look for $13.2-billion boost to budgetary spending to wrap up 2023-24
Roughly $8.9-billion of the additional spending authorities being sought through the most recent supplementary estimates for 2023-24 will be voted on by Parliament.
MPs push for Canada’s chief auditor to investigate the firm behind the ArriveCan app
The auditor general’s office says it’s ‘evaluating the request’ made by the House Government Operations and Estimates Committee to poke deeper into the myriad contracts obtained by GC Strategies.
ArriveCan accountability remains top question as federal spending watchdog says she found ‘disappointing failures’ everywhere she looked
Canadians will lose faith in institutions if there are no consequences, says Aaron Wudrick. But it should be bureaucrats—not ministers—who wear the procurement failings, according to former PSPC ADM Alan Williams.
ArriveCAN: CBSA’s internal review found evidence supporting allegations of misconduct
Michel Lafleur, CBSA’s executive director of professional integrity, revealed that the department had found some evidence warranting further inquiry.
Ombud review into ArriveCan saga unveils deep-rooted issues in Canada’s procurement system
Perception is important in the business of contracting, says expert Alan Williams, and recent revelations about the $54-million ArriveCan app are ‘muddying the waters.’
AG to publish ArriveCan report next month, House Public Accounts Committee hears
Deputy Auditor General Andrew Hayes told the House Public Accounts Committee that the report on the application will be released on Feb. 12, during a meeting that Liberal and NDP MPs criticized the timing of.
Federal revenue, property, money losses spike to $534.2-million in 2022-23
An inverse of the previous year’s trends, lost public property cases were down in 2022-23, but the associated costs were higher, with 17,400 cases valued at $236.6-million.
Federal spending dropped four per cent in 2022-23 as public debt charges continue climb
Finance Canada was the highest-spending department for the second year in a row at $117.8-billion, and ministerial office expenditures rose by $18.2-million in 2022-23.
‘The system is broken’: $30.7-billion in spending estimates not reviewed by House committees
The House Committee on Industry and Technology didn’t review $12.5-billion in spending estimates and hasn’t performed a review of main estimates since the last Parliament.
