Right, not fast, is Morneau’s principle

Finance Minister Bill Morneau tells Paul Wells, ‘Budget 2017 is Chapter 2 of a book that's going to have, I hope, many chapters.’
Finance Minister Bill Morneau suggests that very little of his budget has anything to do with Donald Trump being president of the United States, writes Paul Wells.
TORONTO—Bill Morneau works in a building named after Jim Flaherty. No pressure there. The very walls seem to ask why Morneau, a political rookie whose adult life before politics was spent in some fairly cushy corporate precincts, can't seem to display the offhand charm and crusty wit of his late ...

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