library of parliament

Congratulations to Jean-Denis Frechette

Parliamentary librarian has submitted shortlist to government

Government staffer reportedly on PBO selection committee

The PBO sounds the alarm

Is the PBO supposed to be a discreet consensus-builder?

More questions about the parliamentary budget officer

An exciting new job opportunity

I asked the Library of Parliament if there’d be any further progress, since the last update, on the selection of the next Parliamentary Budget Officer. Here is the latest.

How the PBO came to release a report in the middle of an election

As noted earlier today, the appointment of the parliamentary budget officer is set out in the Parliament of Canada Act. The act allows for the creation of a committee by the Parliamentary Librarian that would be charged with recommending three candidates to the government. I emailed the Library of Parliament to ask if such a committee was to be formed. Here is the response.

For their assistance when I was putting together last week’s piece on the House—and for the indispensable sites they respectively maintain—I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Michael Mulley of openparliament.ca and Cory Horner of howdtheyvote.ca. I also must thank Ned Franks, both for his writing on Parliament and omnibus legislation and his perspective.

Rahim Jaffer enters an already unimpressive picture