Introducing these amendments will require the PBO to make his or her reports available to the public one business day after it's proposed. I think this is actually a compromise. I was more in favour of having a longer time for parliamentarians to be able to manage their affairs, to analyze the information, before they prepared their response to the government with that information or used the information to hold the government to account. I guess a lot of my colleagues felt that at least one business day is a more appropriate time. I'm very supportive of this. It gives the parliamentarian the opportunity to really analyze that information.
The amendment is that Bill C-44, in clause 128, be amended by
(a) replacing line 38 on page 82 with the following: Officer shall make the report available to the public one (b) replacing line 46 on page 82 with the following: liamentary Budget Officer shall make the report available (c) replacing line 8 on page 83 with the following: Officer shall make the report available to the public one