Mr. Mostafa Askari at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On February 21st, 2017. See this statement in context.

February 21st, 2017 / 12:50 p.m.

Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Library of Parliament

I would just clarify that in terms of our mandate, under our legislation we are not entitled to request information from crown corporations. If the bank is a crown corporation, we cannot request information from it and would not be under any obligation to provide information to us on its activity. We could provide an assessment, but we would have to do that based on the public information that exists.

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