PBO analysis finds government slow to implement budget even as overall spending rises
Parliamentary Budgetary Officer Yves Giroux said the latest Supplementary Estimates revealed the government has only sought approval for about 60 per cent of the proposed spending from Budget 2023 so far this year.
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.
Red Chamber assigns help for Senators, staff navigating ‘horrendous’ health-plan transfer
CSG Senator Jim Quinn says the fact that the administration has had to assign staff to work on the issue is ‘almost reprehensible.’
New Treasury Board guidelines on outsourcing ‘may result in savings for professional services,’ says government, as billions in cuts on horizon
The feds are looking for ‘mere cents on the dollar,’ says Treasury Board president Anita Anand, as the government releases a managers’ guide for procuring expert services intended to ‘further improve and strengthen procurement practices.’
Lack of ‘government effectiveness’ the unifying focus of AG reports, says one expert
Issues of service delivery and digital governance cut across many of the reports Auditor General Karen Hogan issued on Oct. 19.
Treasury Board ‘impacts just about everything in government’ and is a good fit for someone ‘who gets things done,’ say insiders of Anand move
‘Being the chief operating officer of a $400-billion operation is not a small job,’ said former Privy Council clerk Michael Wernick of the Treasury Board president’s role.
Latest inflation data reinforce Conservative messaging: ‘the battle is not finished,’ say observers
Inflation is ‘significant’ and ‘steady,’ and early gains may have come quicker than what remains to be achieved on the path to two per cent, said economist Don Drummond.
Feds seek approval for additional $20.5-billion in spending
Altogether, if approved, federal spending so far this year will reach $454.8-billion, up 11.7 per cent from the $407.2-billion in spending approved by the same point last year.
Amid TikTok ban, Canadians left ‘to their own devices’ as feds dither on updating privacy rules: Geist
The Liberals’ latest attempt at modernizing the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, Bill C-27, has only made it to its second reading nine months after being introduced.
