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God of Poetry

Apollo was about more than going to the moon

Climbing Down from Vimy Ridge

One of Canada’s leading historians makes a different case for military success

The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Kevin Page

Kevin Page was Canada’s first parliamentary budget officer. He is the current Jean-Luc Pépin Research Chair on Canadian Government at the University of Ottawa.

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Kevin Page

Watching the Numbers

My fight to set up Parliament's first budget office January | February 2014
In March 2008 I became Canada’s first parliamentary budget officer. It was a great honour. Truth be told, I did not want that honour. I do not think most governments want more accountability. They talk the game but they do not walk the walk. This is true of the current Conservative government. It was the best five years of my public…