‘Bay Street guy’ Morneau defender of the middle class, despite privileged background

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is one of the wealthiest members in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's federal cabinet.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau, right, is one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's main point people on creating prosperity for the middle class. He reportedly earned more than $1-million in 2014 and had about $32-million worth of stock in the company he was running before getting elected. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

March 6, 2017

With this Liberal government’s second federal budget expected any week now, Finance Minister Bill Morneau will again become one of the main faces of this regime that has made growing and defending the middle class one of its main tenets. But Mr. Morneau (Toronto Centre, Ont.), like his boss Prime...

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