Sentences with phrase «hiding the extra prudence»

Rather than hiding the prudence, it would be easy and indeed credible if Minister Flaherty simply increased his «risk adjustment factor» rather than hiding the extra prudence in his forecast of direct program expenses.

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It appears that either the Department of Finance is unable to forecast direct program expenses, or the Minister of Finance has adopted the previous government's approach of ensuring that his deficit targets are met or bettered by «hiding» extra prudence in his budget forecasts — an approach he criticized the previous government for.