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Ottawa Keeping Overhead Cost of Dental Care Program ‘Confidential’: Parliamentary Budget Office

January 18, 2023
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The federal government has invoked confidentiality which forbids the release of the overhead cost of its “Canada Dental Benefit” program, says a report by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO). “The Government has shared its own estimates of administration costs with us,” said the PBO report, submitted to the Commons government operations committee (OGGO), in response…

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Liberals’ Two Billion Trees Promise to Cost $2.78 Billion More Than Planned, PBO Says

January 28, 2021
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OTTAWA—The parliamentary budget office says a pledge by the Trudeau Liberals to plant two billion trees could cost almost double what the government says. The tree-planting spree, spread over a decade, is supposed to start in the spring and cost $3.16 billion over that time, based on federal estimates. Getting to the 2030 target means…

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