Kevin Page, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, will serve legal notice to those departments that have yet to hand over detailed plans for budgetary cuts early this upcoming week, iPolitics has learned.

Page issued the following statement Sunday:

“I can confirm to you that the PBO will be filing and serving legal notice on all non-compliant Deputy Heads early this week. As it is now clear that this matter will constitute the subject of a legal action, it would be inappropriate for me to comment further.”

As of the PBO’s October 16 count, 43 departments had committed to providing information by Friday October 19. As of Friday afternoon, only one small department had done so, but even in that case, the PBO was still looking for more details which that department – unnamed – has promised for Monday.

Some of the departments that had promised to come forward with budgetary details by Friday included National Defence, Public Safety, Canadian Heritage, and Human Resources and Skills Development.

A further 20 departments had offered no commitment at all to the PBO that they would be coming forward with the information pertaining to budgetary cuts. Among those are the Canada Revenue Agency and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Read more about the tussle between PBO and the departments, and what it means, here.