Mr. Mostafa Askari at the Finance Committee

On May 10th, 2017. See this statement in context.

May 10th, 2017 / 5:40 p.m.

Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Library of Parliament

I believe that would be more feasible for the PBO, if it were platforms and not proposals.

I can tell you with a lot of certainty, based on working with the PBO for nine years, that if the legislation stays the way it is drafted right now for platform costing, it would be operationally impossible for the PBO to do a good job, with the quality that would be expected of the PBO. It just opens the door to all kinds of requests, and that would be impossible.

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