OTTAWA — The Department of Finance has quietly updated the online version of this year’s federal budget after several mistakes were found in the original tabled in Parliament last week — including a discrepancy of $2.2 billion.
Conservative MP Kelly McCauley said he discovered the “serious errors” while doing a deep dive into the budget and brought them to the Parliamentary Budget Office, which then alerted the Finance Department. The PBO declined comment. A spokesman for the department denied that that is how it happened, saying the errors “were found following internal review.”
Last year billions in spending for programs that were announced in the 2018 budget but not fully vetted by a Treasury Board process were stacked into a single vote, Vote 40. Conservatives decried the lump sum approval as a “slush fund,” and the Parliamentary Budget Officer issued a scathing report. While the original document said there had been $186 million in spending on initiatives announced in the budget in 2018-19, the updated version shows there was actually $311 million. The original document underestimated total spending on 2019 budget measures over the next five years by an additional $28 million, putting the discrepancy at $153 million in total.
You mean it wasn't because Brison left? I thought that he was the root of all the problems
Mere rounding errors, I’m sure.. 🧐maybe Bill can find some more errors when he’s finished searching for his lost Villa in France...
Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are great at freely spending tax payer money. Canadians shud have known when Justin promised that the budget wud balance itself that the Liberals are clueless on how to budget for or manage money. canpoli
Is at AndrewScheer lraitt CandiceBergenMP PierrePoilievre and that crazy Michelle woman going to start lighting their hair on fire more? 🤦🏼♂️
The typist just experienced things differently!
Typing errors! Hilarious. 😂😂 I’ll get out my old IBM Selectric and correction tape and fix up that budget right now. Good grief. These people are running our govt. cdnpoli Budget2019
People just read it 'differently' says Minister of Debt Bill_Morneau
Vote 40 occurred when Brison was at Treasury. The Prime Minister will be calling a Press Conference to blame JWR for all the misplaced zeroes and reiterate that Scott Brison resigning caused such despair it was a sympathy dive into more red ink
That’s normal practice in the government. Especially with such a massive report. Do you think translating that report only takes a few days? What about coding it onto the web? It takes time, and usually under tight deadlines. Give the party a break geeeez
Completely amateur hour.
Don't worry. Typing errors will correct themselves.
Morneau. 'Have we gone back to the old math'
It wouldn't be the first time and I highly doubt it will be the last The Trudeau 'Liberals' like fixing any 'typo' that doesn't fit their narrative
Need an investigation into this typist and connection to the PM.
So, the budget is now balanced ?
Typo's, I saw it is the wrong type.
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