I would very much like to help Parliament hold the government's feet to the fire to make sure that the announcements it makes in its budgets are affordable and will be executed.
I would offer that my three decades of public service have prepared me very well for this. I've worked in all three central agencies, I've done economic policy at Industry Canada, social policy at ESDC, national security policy and banking policy. I have written many of the binders that ministers and deputies show up with at committees. I know the questions that they prefer you ask them, and I know the questions that they prefer you not ask them.
I would like to build out the role of PBO to make sure that you have before you the options to ask a wider set of questions of the government, to make sure that things are moving on the right track. That's how I think my experience can be put to the use of Parliament.