The letter seemingly backs Yves Giroux’s suggestion that the government put a gag on him to not talk about its internal numbers
OTTAWA — Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s office sent extensive amounts of data about the federal carbon pricing’s economic impacts to the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), with an explicit directive for it to be used for “internal purposes only.”
The letter sent on May 14, which is available on the PBO’s website, shows that Deputy Minister Jean-François Tremblay responded to a query from the budget watchdog’s office on April 30 requesting additional information to update its analysis of the measure.
