{"id":8430,"date":"2011-03-24T10:12:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T14:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8430"},"modified":"2011-03-24T10:13:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T14:13:11","slug":"even-if-the-government-falls-well-still-be-paying-through-the-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/even-if-the-government-falls-well-still-be-paying-through-the-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Even if the government falls, we&#8217;ll still be paying through the nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A round-up of what happens <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/03\/24\/on-the-hill-what-to-expect-when-you%E2%80%99re-expecting-a-spring-election\/\" target=\"_blank\">if the government falls<\/a> includes this nugget of information for anyone who hoped the spending would at least slow down while the politicians are off on the campaign trail:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To fund the daily operations of government without a budget, the Governor-General will typically issue special warrants that allow government departments to take funds from the federal bank account (officially known as the Consolidated Revenue Fund) without having to get Parliament\u2019s approval. The money must be \u201curgently required for the public good\u201d according to the House of Commons Procedure and Practice manual, and the Treasury has to show that no existing funds have been set aside for the payments. The special warrants run from the date that parliament dissolves until 60 days after an election and the government has to give the next Parliament a list of everything they have spent within 15 days of the new government taking office. The money still needs to be retroactively approved by the new Parliament and included in their upcoming budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately Parliament has to come back an approve the budget but there are these ways of getting interim finance when parliament has not passed a budget,\u201d said Ned Franks, an expert in parliamentary procedure and professor emeritus at Queen\u2019s University.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to some abuse of the system while Brian Mulroney was prime minister, the system was amended in 1998 to limit the use of special warrants to only those times when Parliament has dissolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A round-up of what happens if the government falls includes this nugget of information for anyone who hoped the spending would at least slow down while the politicians are off on the campaign trail: To fund the daily operations of government without a budget, the Governor-General will typically issue special warrants that allow government departments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,84],"tags":[188,458],"class_list":["post-8430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-cancon","category-government","tag-electionwatch","tag-parliament"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2bY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8432,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430\/revisions\/8432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}