The Prime Minister is slowly being cornered into firing Morneau publicly I don't think he can wait for a normal cabinet shuffle.
With the fund raising business where they were basically selling influence. To Trudeau taking a vacation on a island owned by a powerful lobby head. To the whole flying people around on the jet while redacting the travel documents, to the moving expenses stuff by his own Chief of Staff. There is a pretty good stench of problems with integrity in this government. Morneau is a 10,000 pound gorilla in the room.
I don't know why the PM insists on keeping him, he's a pretty poor finance minister. But he has to know where the bodies are buried.
I would expect that any kind of firing will be nasty and Morneau is either going to get a huge severance or sue.
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