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Politics This Morning: Morneau resigns as finance minister amid reports of rifts over policy

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Bill Morneau, who has served as finance minister since the Trudeau government took office in 2015, says he had planned to only run for two election cycles. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY Beatrice Paez

August 18, 2020

Good Tuesday morning, Bill Morneau resigned as finance minister after a closed-door meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who had, amid rumblings of a rift between the two, professed through his office that he had "full confidence" in Mr. Morneau. "It's nev...

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