Mr. Speaker, next, the PBO plays a crucial role in holding a government to account, and that is what the Liberals used to believe when the Conservatives were in power. If the Prime Minister's changes had occurred under the last government, we would not have known about the F-35 costs, for example.
The Prime Minister said that the PBO must be “truly independent”, so the question is, why is he muzzling it?
Why is the Prime Minister attacking the parliamentary budget officer?