Harper Government, PBO Clash Over Foreign Aid Report
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget office is defending itself from a government attack on its latest report on Canada's plunging overseas development spending.
The Foreign Affairs Department accused the parliamentary budget watchdog of relying on "inaccurate financial information" in a report that said spending on poverty reduction shrank 23 per cent in the first six months of the last fiscal year.
"Moreover, the report suggests that the level of expenditures by the end of the second quarter is an accurate reflection of Canada’s disbursement plans for the full fiscal year, which is not the case," the department said in a Monday news release.
This is the latest public scrap between the Harper government and Parliament's budget office.
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