Jason Jacques voiced concerns about the possibility of executive overreach in such decisions.

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It was Saturday night on Labour Day weekend when Jason Jacques’ phone rang. Article content

It was the Prime Minister’s Office looking for a parliamentary budget officer to carry over for the next six months. Article content Article content

“You receive a phone call on a Saturday night over a long weekend and someone purporting to be from the Prime Minister’s Office, it might actually be real,” Jacques, the interim PBO, told a parliamentary committee on Sept. 16.

“I tell my kids not to take those phone calls.”

When a PMO official asked Jacques to be the interim PBO he immediately said that there was an “incredibly talented” candidate for that position, who was going to

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