Sentences with phrase «parliamentary budget authority»

«Mr. Speaker, one of the commitments the Conservative Party made in 2006 was to create an independent parliamentary budget authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament,» Bob Rae offered with his third intervention, stepping forward and jabbing his index finger at the government side.

If elected Prime Minister, Mr. Harper promised that would be no more inaccurate forecasts, because he would create an independent agency, «Ensuring truth in budgeting with a Parliamentary Budget Authority» to hold the government to account in its budget forecasting and its spending estimates.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».