Jason Jacques, Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer, at the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 16. Photo by Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press

Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Jason Jacques said he is not aware of any fiscal anchors set by the current federal government, according to testimony before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday.

“I would say, officially within the office, I don’t know if the government currently has fiscal anchors,” said Jacques, in front of the government operations committee. “Which of course, causes the people I work with a considerable degree of concern at this point.”

Jacques, who was appointed earlier this month as PBO on an interim basis, said the previous fiscal anchors set out by the go

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