Real Change: A New Plan For a Strong Middle Class (page 25)

"Some changes require legislative provisions, such as [making] the Board of International Economy public. […] We will work with the Board of Internal Economy to enhance changes that we all collectively made in the last Parliament to require members of Parliament to disclose quarterly their expenses in a common and detailed way."

(Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, January 28, 2016)

« The Liberal government committed to opening up meetings of the powerful and secretive House of Commons Board of Internal Economy during the 2015 campaign, but six months into its mandate, there’s still no word on when or how this will happen.

The latest minutes released from the House management board are from a Dec. 10, 2015 meeting. »

(The Hill Times, April 25, 2016)

« The Liberal government will move this fall to open up Parliament’s secretive and powerful Board of Internal Economy.

“We’re going to have legislation, hopefully in the fall, to do that,” Government House Leader Dominic LeBlanc told iPolitics. »

(ipolitics, May 31, 2016)

« Consistent with its commitment to deliver more open and transparent government, the government will introduce measures to bring to an end the secrecy that surrounds the Board of Internal Economy, the body that makes decisions and provides direction on financial and administrative matters of the House of Commons.The government intends to make the Board’s meetings open by default, and in all but exceptional cases involving sensitive or personal information, business of the Board of Internal Economy will be made public. »

(A Plan for Middle Class Progress : Fall Economic Statement, October 27, 2016)

"As mentioned in the 2016 Fall Economic Statement, the Government will introduce legislation to: establish the Parliamentary Budget Officer as an independent Officer of Parliament, with a renewed mandate to focus on costing and financial analysis of the federal government; and bring to an end the secrecy surrounding the Board of Internal Economy." (Building a strong middle class, March 22, 2017)

"The historically secretive board of MPs that oversees the workings of the House of Commons is holding its first open door meeting on Parliament Hill Thursday." (CTV, October 18, 2017)

"But amendments to the Parliament of Canada Act that went through just as quietly — in an omnibus budget bill Parliament passed last summer — include a range of exceptions that would require secrecy for some of the powerful board’s most important decisions." (iPolitics, october 17, 2017)