Parliamentary Budget Officer: Legal Action

Federal Departments Dept: OTTAWA - Canada's parliamentary budget officer says he'll file court action this week over the refusal of some federal departments to hand over details on billions of dollars in planned cuts by the Harper government, according to Winnipeg Free Press. He wouldn't provide any further details, saying "this matter will constitute the subject of a legal action" and it would be inappropriate for him to comment further and kevin Page, Parliamentary budget officer, appears at Commons finance committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, April 26, 2012. Canada's parliamentary budget officer says he'll file court action this week over the refusal of some federal departments to hand over details of billions of dollars in planned cuts by the Harper government.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick In a statement issued Sunday, Kevin Page says his office "will be filing and serving legal notice on all non-compliant" deputy ministers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.