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Liberals nominate Fintrac official Annette Ryan as budget watchdog
Annette Ryan, a senior official at Canada's financial intelligence agency, has been nominated for a seven-year term to restore independent fiscal scrutiny to the Parliamentary Budget Office.
- On March 9, 2026 Wayne Long tabled the nomination of Annette Ryan as Parliamentary Budget Officer, asking MPs to approve a seven-year appointment requiring House and Senate approval.
- The role has been vacant since Jason Jacques' six-month interim appointment expired on March 2, 2026, leaving the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer unable to publish reports or accept new requests.
- Annette Ryan currently serves as deputy director at FinTRAC, the federal agency collecting and analyzing financial intelligence on suspected money laundering, and holds a master's in economics from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
- Poilievre said he will review the nominee's record and urged Jacques be made permanent, as the post remains vacant since March 2, 2026, hampering reports.
- The OECD review praised the PBO as highly respected and urged appointment rule changes to protect independence, while former PBOs and opposition figures said the government should have named a permanent successor weeks ago.
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Liberals nominate Fintrac official Annette Ryan as new budget watchdog
Ryan has worked in the public service for more than a decade and currently serves as a deputy director at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre.
·Toronto, Canada
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If she passes the confirmation process, she will be in charge of reviewing the government's decisions.
·Montreal, Canada
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Feds nominate new budget watchdog after position briefly left vacant
The federal government has nominated senior public servant Annette Ryan as Canada's next parliamentary budget officer, about a week after allowing the previous interim budget watchdog's contract to expire without naming his replacement.
·Ottawa, Canada
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The Liberal government appointed a senior official from the National Financial Intelligence Agency to the position of the next financial controller in Ottawa.
·Montreal, Canada
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