Mr. Jean-Denis Fréchette at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

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

March 1st, 2018 / 12:20 p.m.

Parliamentary Budget Officer, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer

I will ask Jason.

Just before that, I'll note the example of the Australian PBO. Before the election in 2016 in Australia, the Australian PBO had about 25 to 30 people. The advantage he has over there is that during the election he can ask for having deemed employees from the Department of Treasury and Finance. He got 50 new deemed employees during the election of 2016.

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