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The National
3 days ago
- Politics
- The National
How to watch as Keir Starmer faces Liaison Committee grilling
The Prime Minister will appear before Westminster's Liaison Committee in Parliament at 2.30pm on Monday. The Liaison Committee brings together the chairs of the UK Parliament's committees who get a chance to question the PM on a wide range of topics. READ MORE: Labour launch review into raising retirement age They have set out two main themes for today's session: Poverty in the UK and International Affairs. During the Poverty in the UK part, he will face questions from: Debbie Abrahams MP – Work and Pensions Steve Barclay MP – Finance Liam Byrne MP – Business and Trade Ruth Cadbury MP – Transport Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP – Public Accounts Dame Caroline Dinenage MP – Culture, Media and Sport Florence Eshalomi MP – Housing, Communities and Local Government Patricia Ferguson MP – Scottish Affairs Helen Hayes MP – Education Andy Slaughter MP – Justice Nick Smith MP – Administration Then from: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP – Public Accounts Dame Caroline Dinenage MP – Culture, Media and Sport Andy Slaughter MP – Justice Dame Emily Thornberry MP – Foreign Affairs You will be able to watch the session on the Parliament Live website or on YouTube.
News24
25-06-2025
- Business
- News24
Tough economy driving unethical practices in attorneys handling RAF claims, LPC tells Parly
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Ottawa Citizen
28-05-2025
- Business
- Ottawa Citizen
Today's letters: Federal budgets are more work than Carney's critics understand
Article content Article content I have been deeply involved in budget-making, in the Paul Martin years, both in fiscal policy in the Department of Finance and then in PCO. Work on late-February budgets started in November, if not earlier. Priorities needed to be set by whatever process (in our case, a Cabinet process). Then, ideas and initiatives were surveyed against them. These are most often collaborative across departments. Tax initiatives needed planning and analysis. Article content Article content There were, in my experience, rough budget drafts before Christmas, and then drafts turned around every couple of days or (even overnight in the end), for the last two months. Article content You need enough economic and fiscal data for the current year as a base for forecasts, and that comes out with a lag. Why do you think annual fiscal and economic updates are late in the autumn? And initiatives — especially big ones — need enough planning to have confidence in them policy policy-wise and cost-wise. Article content So it hasn't dropped in virtually a week after a single Cabinet meeting? Or even next month? Shame! Shame! Article content And I hope there are enough crystal balls for everyone, ones you don't want to share with Trump while you're negotiating with him. Article content You want a budget that's worth the paper it's written on. Article content L.J. Ridgeway, Ottawa Article content Re: No federal budget? That's outrageous, May 23. Article content Article content There is no more compelling argument for improved civics education in Canada than the letter to the editor entitled: 'No federal budget? That's outrageous.' If we do, in fact, get the government we deserve, we should be very worried. Article content Canadians do need to know where their money is spent. This is why the government has limited spending authority until Parliament comes back. The government is obliged to table its annual planned spending, which must be approved by Parliament. At the end of the year (and a bit), the actual spending is reported in the Public Accounts (which inevitably gets lots of media attention, though not always for the best reasons). In addition, the government does not disappear during an election: passports are issued, soldiers are deployed, medicines are approved, tariffs are raised and so on.
