N.S. NDP ask house speaker to intervene on ‘heavy-handed changes’ by Liberals
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Chender said the impact of fewer public accounts meetings is huge.
‘The public accounts committee serves this extremely important function which is to scrutinize the expenditure of public funds,’ she said.
‘It appears to me that what’s happening … is that essentially government wants to answer fewer questions and reduce transparency. Don’t use accessibility as a kind of ad-hoc excuse for doing that.’
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