Mr. Matthew Shea at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

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

November 8th, 2018 / 4 p.m.

Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Services, Privy Council Office

I'm not a machinery of government expert, but right now, he's not been appointed and therefore has no formal authority. If he were to say, “I want to spend money on X, Y, Z”, he would have no ability to sign for that money.

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