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September 30, 2020 – The federal debt will reach an unprecedented $1.45 trillion this year and eclipse $1.6 trillion by 2023, the Parliamentary Budget Office said yesterday. Analysts cautioned the record debt does not include pension liabilities, Crown corporation borrowing or new spending proposed since September 1. “Should parliamentarians support
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May 22, 2020 – Finance Minister Bill Morneau yesterday vowed he will not increase taxes to pay for the largest deficit in Canadian history. Morneau set no new date for a financial report to Parliament after cancelling a planned March 30 budget due to the pandemic. “We have no plan
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October 22, 2018 – Parks Canada says it may rewrite rules to amend speech gag regulations under the Canada National Parks Act. MPs and senators on Parliament’s scrutiny of regulations committee called it a breach of the Charter of Rights. “We obviously take the Charter very seriously,” said Michael Nadler,
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September 26, 2017 – MPs yesterday denounced amendments to the Access To Information Act granting staff more powers to censor and conceal public records. Cabinet hinted it expected legislators to rewrite the bill. “They can always try to improve the legislation, by all means, and that is why we have