Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux says his office is probing the federal government’s $13.8 billion deal with Volkswagen made to incentivize the European automaking giant to build its first overseas battery cell plant in Ontario.
Giroux told The Epoch Times that his office began analyzing the expensive deal near the end of April and is aiming to publish it at the end of Parliament’s spring session, scheduled to conclude on June 23.
The budget officer said he began his analysis after, but not in response to, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre calling on him to do so in late April.
“We had planned to start a study of the VW deal before Mr. Poilievre asked for it but had not started it formally,” Giroux said….