Canada’s coronavirus deficit soaring to $343B as feds warn of ‘permanent change’ to economy Before becoming PBO, Page worked in the Finance Department helping to prepare budgets.
These days, he’s the founding president and CEO of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy at the University of Ottawa.Page acknowledges that budget preparation would be significantly different in the current year but he’s convinced there is a way to do it.“It’s a different way of operating.
Other people have adjusted,” Page said, pointing to, for example, the Bank of Canada. “I wonder if Finance (Canada) is really struggling with that adjustment.”Even though the Trudeau government will soon pass the record for a Parliament with no budget, it still has a.