Finance Minister chooses Main Street over Bay Street to sell budget at home

But unlike in recent past decades, Finance Department officials are not part of the budget-sales job.

In selling the recent federal budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty (Whitby-Oshawa, Ont.) is hitting the right notes with the right audiences, says former associate deputy minister of finance Don Drummond who is quite familiar with hitting the road in the immediate post-budget period.

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