The Salt Spring Forum presents Canada’s first Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page.

In 2008, Page was given the independent authority to analyze and report on all of the federal government’s spending plans. Page adopted a truly fearless attitude to his new job and worked to bring fiscal transparency to Ottawa. This caused enormous embarrassment to the highly secretive Harper government.

As a result, Kevin Page was not reappointed to a second term as Parliamentary Budget Officer. He now teaches at the University of Ottawa, where he holds the Jean-Luc Pepin Research Chair in the Faculty of Social Sciences.