Usually succession planning is more the Foreign Affairs guy and they stick someone else with Finance. Historically that's more or less the way its played out, anyway.
Flaherty was ok in my eyes. Not amazing, could've done worse. We're mired in debt and still paying for economic action plan signs and commercials, but we got TFSAs. He brought in a bunch of piddly tax credits for $85 each, and hiked EI premiums, and of course rolled back OAS. But he stayed the course on Martins bank regulations so I'm satisfied with that.
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