Why is Morneau still the finance minister? Strategy over common sense

While the finance minister and the prime minister have apologized for their mistakes, those acts of contrition do not seem enough for the circumstances.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is wise enough to know how his actions look to the real world, not the partisan flock. But even a blind man can see the glaring resignation-worthy mistakes that were made, writes Tim Powers.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

July 29, 2020

OTTAWA—Why don’t ministers resign anymore when they clearly have erred in judgement and broken their own rules? That is the polite version of the question I have been asked often since Finance Minister Bill Morneau admitted he had taken a trip from the WE charity organization and had forgotten�...

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