CANADA’S BUDGET WATCHDOG TAKES ON SECRECY-DRIVEN GOVERNMENT
January 1st, 2013
FOR critics who claim financial reporting is boring – accounting professionals should point to Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page. He has created a unit with a limited staff and budget, taking on a government with a taste for secrecy, and still released reports revealing cost assessments that have made headlines.Page, 55, has ruffled many feathers. His team valued the planned purchase of new F-35 fighter jets from the USA, (as very expensive), embarrassing the Canadian government. It challenged government claims that a new crime bill sending ...
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