QUESTION PERIOD — Finance
Debt Management Report
May 28, 2025
My question is also for Senator Gold.
Senator Gold, the 2023-24 fiscal year ended 14 months ago, yet we’re still waiting for the Debt Management Report for that year. We need that report to review the Main Estimates that were just tabled here today.
If you look at the parliamentary calendar, it’s possible the government could delay tabling that report until September or October, which would be 18 months after the fiscal year. Can you tell us when the government will be tabling the 2023-24 Debt Management Report? Hopefully, it is within the next few days.
Senator Marshall, it’s such a pleasure to receive questions from you. I smile because it’s nice to see you, but you also represent a very serious voice for fiscal accountability and responsibility in this chamber, and it’s to your credit.
I don’t have the answer that you’re seeking. It is important that we have all the tools to do our work. I will certainly raise this with my counterparts at the earliest opportunity.
To carry on with accountability and transparency, we’re also still waiting for the government to provide the Departmental Results Report data and the Full-time Equivalents data on the GC InfoBase website for five organizations. I won’t list the five organizations, but I can say the Privy Council Office is one of them.
We need that information to review the Main Estimates. We have been waiting and should have had it last fall. Can you tell us when the government will post that data on the website? Again, it would be very helpful if they could do that within the next few days. I understand most of the data is available.
Again, thank you for your question. I’ll certainly add that to the questions that I will raise with my counterpart.
