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Speaking during question period on Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau caused quite a stir when he called former finance minister Bill Morneau as well as former and current Bank of Canada governors Mark Carney and Tiff Macklem “random Liberals” in response to a question from Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. “You know the Conservative leader is...

Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced on Monday that the federal government is expanding its liquidity support measures and will provide loans and financing to the country’s largest employers to help them through the COVID-19 economic crisis.

Canadian Health Minister Patty Hajdu was asked during Friday’s COVID-19 briefing about her reaction to Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s involvement in the Justin Trudeau-WE Charity controversy and said she has enjoyed working with Morneau, and credited him for early action from a fiscal perspective during the pandemic. Hajdu added he “has my support, of course.”

Bill Morneau on Monday announced that he had resigned as Canada’s finance minister and MP for Toronto Centre following his meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He also said he plans to put his name forward for Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and that Trudeau had given his full support.

Former finance minister Bill Morneau said on Monday that he’s always “been thinking about how I can best serve” and that “at this stage” they’re going to need for a long period of time a government focused on the recovery and it’s the “appropriate” time to resign. He said the next person for the role...

University of the Fraser Valley Political Science Professor discusses the sudden resignation of Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau and what impact it may have on the Federal Liberal Party.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Tuesday he messaged new Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to congratulate her on her new role following Bill Morneau’s resignation and said “if there is one person I have confidence in, it’s Chrystia Freeland.”

Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland was sworn-in as finance minister and deputy prime minister during a cabinet shuffle at Rideau Hall on Tuesday. Her change in post comes after former finance minister, Bill Morneau, announced his resignation on Monday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is proroguing Parliament until September 23. Mercedes Stephenson looks at what this means for the ethics investigations into Trudeau and former Finance Minister Bill Morneau over the WE Charity affair, and what could be behind Morneau’s resignation.

With Bill Morneau resigning as finance minister, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has lost another key member of his cabinet. And as Trudeau faces yet another ethics investigation, Eric Sorensen looks at where this all leaves the prime minister and his minority government.

Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau apologized on Friday for his role in the WE charity controversy, which has cast a spotlight on the Trudeau administration in recent weeks, and is now the subject of an ethics probe, stating that he regrets not recusing himself from the discussions over whether to approve the $912-million program.

On Thursday, Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre said he has identified “at least five sections of the Ethics Act” that he says Finance Minister Bill Morneau has violated, after Morneau admitted on Wednesday that he had only just repaid $41,000 in what he says were previously unknown expenses due to the organization, stemming from family trips.

Conservative MP Michael Cooper called for Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s resignation on Thursday due to his family’s connections with WE Charity, saying that Morneau has “breached multiple sections of the Conflict of Interest Act.”

In his last appearance in the House of Commons as leader of the Conservative Party, Andrew Scheer accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of inventing a ‘policy dispute’ between himself and Finance Minister Bill Morneau as a pretext for the latter’s ouster, and mockingly asked when Trudeau intended to put “the Finance Minister out of his...

Finance Minister Bill Morneau said on Wednesday, as part of the government’s economic and fiscal snapshot, that if they keep the COVID-19 transmission rate in decline they can ensure a stable and steady economic recovery. He also said the snapshot is intended to encapsulate the period of time until the end of the current fiscal...

Finance Minister Bill Morneau will appear Wednesday before a House of Commons committee that is probing a cancelled agreement for WE Charity to run a student-volunteer program. Abigail Bimman has more.

Ian Shugart, Canada’s top public servant, told the House of Commons finance committee on Tuesday that he didn’t see a way Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau could have avoided being involved in discussions around the now cancelled contract with WE Charity.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau told a finance committee hearing on Wednesday that it was not his responsibility to sign agreements or to consider which organization would be receiving contracts when asked if it was the responsibility of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth Minister Bardish Chagger to sign the final contract with the WE Charity Foundation...

Mon, Jan 11: Canada’s Finance Minister Bill Morneau made his first trip to Halifax. As Marieke Walsh reports, he doesn’t yet have a lot of answers on how the Liberal’s election promises will be implemented.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau met with members of the Kiwanis Boys & Girls Club of Toronto during a pre-budget event on Friday, and the children let him know what they thought of his new shoes.