Mr. Mostafa Askari at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On May 8th, 2018. See this statement in context.

May 8th, 2018 / 11:20 a.m.

Deputy Parliamentary Budget Officer, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer

I assume that this will be the case. If that process starts earlier, with the Treasury Board and Finance collaborating on the spending budget measures, then the Treasury Board submission process could start much earlier, before the budget is actually tabled and approved. Then you wouldn't see those kinds of delays. Exactly how they can manage that is something they will have to—

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