I feel your pain. It was a good article, but the authors seemed to keep their powder dry more than they should have. If you look at Bill Curry's interview with Kevin Page and some of his colleagues there is a lot more open criticism of the proposed PBO reforms in this omnibus bill. There are more than 20 comments for Curry's article, including a few by me. If you look at my comments, I should say that I don't blame the PBO in any way for their constrained forecast of the 2015-16 budget balance. It was a legitimate project, and the Conservatives could have made it a lot clearer that the PBO might have come out with a cheerier number if it was making an unconstrained forecast. It appears that part of the reason that 2015-16 would have had a larger surplus than the 2015 budget had forecast was because of a number of court settlements in Revenue Canada's favour against corporations charged with tax evasion, something difficult to forecast.