Prime Minister Mark Carney has appointed Jason Jacques to a six-month term as the interim parliamentary budget officer.
Jacques is already the office’s director general of economic and fiscal analysis. He officially starts his brief term on Wednesday.
The parliamentary budget officer is an agent of Parliament who provides independent economic and financial analysis to the Senate and House of Commons.
Jacques is steeped in public sector experience, with stints at the Privy Council Office, Finance Canada, the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Bank of Canada.
The incoming budget officer’s first major task will come soon enough, as the federal government plans to table a budget in the months ahead….