Former FinTRAC deputy director Annette Ryan has been approved as the next Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) in a 164–153 vote with the support of the Liberals and NDP and opposition of Conservatives and Bloc Québécois. Green Party MP Elizabeth May also voted in favour of Ryan’s appointment.
The Bloc and Tories had previously indicated they would be against Ryan’s nomination, pushing instead for the Liberal government to appoint Jason Jacques, who had served as interim PBO for six months up until March 2 of this year when Ryan was nominated by the Carney government as his successor.
During the vacancy following the end of Jacques’s term and prior to Ryan’s approval, the PBO was unable to table reports in Parliament….