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Trudeau Leaves Canada Finance Minister Post Unfilled as Markets Open

CANADA
  • Prime Minister's Trudeau office has released no official schedule as of 9am EST on Tuesday, after Finance Minister Bill Morneau resigned at 7pm last night in Ottawa
  • TV networks CBC and CTV reporting that deputy PM Chrystia Freeland will be named finance minister later today, citing unnamed sources
  • Morneau left amid reports of policy rift with Trudeau, and after ethics investigation on his ties to WE Charity after he helped approve a CAD900m contract for that group
  • See MNI POLICY story from 8:14pm last night for more
MNI Ottawa Bureau | +1 613-314-9647 | greg.quinn@marketnews.com
MNI Ottawa Bureau | +1 613-314-9647 | greg.quinn@marketnews.com

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