Compare and contrast, as you will:

Janyce McGregor

Ensure truth in budgeting with a Parliamentary Budget Authority

A Conservative government will:

Require government departments and agencies to provide accurate, timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament.

Two years later:

"Budgets and estimates reporting to Parliament on Canada's mission to Afghanistan have not met any appropriate standard or best practice ... Canada lags behind the best practices of other jurisdictions regarding quality and frequency of war cost reporting."

Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer, on the release of his report on the costs of Canada's Afghanistan mission, October 9. 2008 — a report for which Foreign Affairs, the RCMP and Corrections Canada have refused to supply any information to date.

— Janyce McGregor