Cabinet committee changes give clues about happenings inside Trudeau government

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Among the ex-members of the committee on Growing the Middle Class is Chrystia Freeland, which is odd, writes Paul Wells, since she wrote a book on growing the middle class.Photograph courtesy of World Economic Forum

Opinion

BY PAUL WELLS

August 29, 2016

OTTAWA—In the bad old days of the Soviet Union, western intelligence agencies used to grab at the tiniest details to figure out, in the absence of reliable information, who was up or down in Moscow. Seating orders on reviewing stands at May Day parades. The placement of articles in Pravda

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