You also said an independent parliamentary budget officer should determine their work plan and undertake analysis within the mandate he or she deems important. How can you be accountable if already the basis point is what you deem to be important? I guess my question is, what would you actually like to see, or what changes would you make to the legislation so that you can actually be accountable to parliamentarians and empower the individual MPs to hold the government to account?
On May 10th, 2017. See this statement in context.