OTTAWA — The Department of Finance has quietly updated the online version of this year’s federal budget after several mistakes were found in the original tabled in Parliament last week — including a discrepancy of $2.2 billion. The department chalks them up to “typing errors,” but Conservatives warn they undermine trust in the entire document. About a dozen pages of tables listing total spending on 2019 budget initiatives have been updated online to include a handful of corrections in red text. “They table the budget with the Vote 40 slush fund repeated, with errors that can’t be trusted, which takes away even more oversight. The updated version changes that number to a $23-million deficit.

Source: National Post March 27, 2019 22:52 UTC