{"id":7073,"date":"2018-05-26T06:40:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T06:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=7073"},"modified":"2018-05-26T06:40:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T06:40:19","slug":"the-ole-nag-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=7073","title":{"rendered":"The Ole Nag is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The Trudeau government\u2019s efforts to streamline its budgeting process mean $7 billion in new spending commitments would be subject to far less parliamentary scrutiny \u2014 and the money could technically be spent elsewhere, says the federal spending watchdog.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7076 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/slush-fund.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/slush-fund.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/slush-fund-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/slush-fund-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Parliamentary Budget Office report painted a bleaker picture of what it called a \u201cnovel\u201d approach that ultimately removes power from the elected House.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7077\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trudeau-reading-newspaper-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trudeau-reading-newspaper-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trudeau-reading-newspaper.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Until now, Parliament would approve spending only after funding had been scrutinized and approved in the Treasury Board\u2019s submission process. Not so with \u201cVote 40,\u201d which would approve the $7 billion prior to such scrutiny and lessen Parliament\u2019s legal controls over where money is spent, indicating to the PBO that \u201cdue diligence will no longer be performed on new budget spending measures before the government asks for Parliament\u2019s assent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7079 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Court-Painter-Slush.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Court-Painter-Slush.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Court-Painter-Slush-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Court-Painter-Slush-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7080 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/court-painter-Trudeau-with-Newspaper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/court-painter-Trudeau-with-Newspaper.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/court-painter-Trudeau-with-Newspaper-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/court-painter-Trudeau-with-Newspaper-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"_magnetRelConrel_318-1\" data-widget-id=\"rel_318-1\">\n<div class=\"_magnetRelHdrel_318-1\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The Trudeau government\u2019s efforts to streamline its budgeting process mean $7 billion in new spending commitments would be subject to far less parliamentary scrutiny \u2014 and the money could technically be spent elsewhere, says the federal spending watchdog. The Parliamentary Budget Office report painted a bleaker picture of what it called a \u201cnovel\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=7073\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ole Nag is Back&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7081,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions\/7081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}