EDMONTON —A colleague told me the other day that I should write a column about Finance Minister Bill Morneau — basically, because no columnist should pass up a chance to face wash some politician for ineptitude or deviousness. But there is also the point that Morneau might be the best-qualified finance minister in the history of the Dominion. Leaving aside the math, I take Morneau Shepell to be a sort of gang of mercenaries that exists to serve businesses in their endless polite war against the state. We all like to have successful businessmen as ministers of finance, and Bill Morneau is certainly that. What finance minister could do more good so easily, and more painlessly, for the public treasury?

Source: National Post October 20, 2017 18:11 UTC