The Hill Times: Giroux, who left after completing a seven-year term, said this shows the government is “not concerned at all” with this position being empty.
“The position being vacant means that the office cannot answer MPs’ or committees’ requests, and they cannot publish anything. So, de facto, it means that, for parliamentarians, the office is shut down, and it means the same thing for the media and Canadians because the longer the position remains empty, the longer the PBO or the office cannot publish anything,” he told The Hill Times in a March 2 interview…