Prime Minister Mark Carney has appointed Jason Jacques for a six -month mandate as an interim parliamentary budget officer.
Jacques is the General Director of the Office and replaces Yves Giroux, whose term leads the Office of Budget Surveillance of Parliament expires today.
Giroux said he didn’t know who his successor would be when the end of his seven -year mandate approached.
The incoming budget officer is immersed in the public sector experience, with periods in the Office of the Private Council, Finance Canada, the Secretariat of the Board of the Treasury and the Bank of Canada.
The parliamentary budget officer is an agent of Parliament that provides independent economic and financial analysis to the Senate and the Chamber of the Commons.
Jacques’s first important task will come soon, since the federal government plans to present a budget this fall.
