Detailed Information: Federal Court

Departments Dept: Only about of half the departments have sent information to Kevin Page, including one that arrived on Friday, according to CBC. The deadline for the tardy departments has been extended once already. However, Page made it clear Friday that if departments don't co-operate, he's prepared to take the issue to Federal Court to attempt to force them to comply and the parliamentary budget officer set the end of business hours today as the final deadline for delinquent government departments to report detailed information to his office about how cuts announced in last March's budget will affect them. The PBO had said it was prepared to work through the weekend if the information it is seeking is delivered. But as of 5:00 pm Friday the office said it had received "only one information package from a small federal organization." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.