What we see, I believe, in the statute governing the Parliamentary Budget Officer is a compromise between those who wanted an autonomous budget office similar to the Congressional Budget Office in the United States, those who didn't want anything, and those who were at other parts of the spectrum. I think it was put in the Library of Parliament to reduce the lines of accountability directly to Parliament and reduce the direct controls Parliament exercises over it. It is up to Parliament to decide if it would like more.
My reaction at this point—and I have changed over the years, I must say—is that I feel the natural tendency of a government to keep information to itself, because information is power, needs a strong, overwhelming position on the other side.
What the Parliamentary Budget Officer has done so far is of good enough quality and suggests the office is useful enough that we might well benefit from strengthening it both in its autonomy, its position, and in the funding it gets, the resources it has.