Mr. Jason Jacques at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On March 1st, 2018. See this statement in context.

March 1st, 2018 / 12:30 p.m.

Chief Financial Officer and Senior Director, Costing and Budgetary Analysis, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer

I think it has always been implicitly part of our mandate, since the office was set up and running in 2008.

In 2011 the House of Commons finance committee passed a motion at that point actually directing the parliamentary budget officer to prepare a cost estimate of any piece of private members business within 45 days of it showing up on the order paper.

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