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Old 03-18-2014, 03:15 PM   #1
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He wants to return to the private sector. No replacement named yet.

I would imagine the majority will rejoice rather than mourn.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03...herty-resigns/
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Old 03-18-2014, 03:29 PM   #2
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He may be saying its not health related but I suspect that if he didn't have this issue to begin with, he'd stay in politics.

And I guess you can put me in the minority category. I think he's been a pretty good finance minister.


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Old 03-18-2014, 03:30 PM   #3
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Well no wonder it's health related, he hasn't changed his clothes in a year!
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Old 03-18-2014, 03:33 PM   #4
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I guess Income Splitting will be happening after all...

Now who will Rob Ford call for subway funding?
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Old 03-18-2014, 03:34 PM   #5
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He hasn't looked healthy for a while now. I think history will look favourably on his tenure as finance minister.
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I guess Income Splitting will be happening after all...
I selfishly hope so. It would be like winning the lottery in my household.
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I selfishly hope so. It would be like winning the lottery in my household.
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Old 03-18-2014, 03:52 PM   #8
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I think he did a very good job as Finance Minister, I think that the income splitting disagreement with the Prime Minister helped him make a decision. There have been rumblings that he's been extremely ill and he's living with a lot of pain.

It will be interesting to see who steps in.
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Old 03-18-2014, 03:56 PM   #9
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I'm certainly no supporter of The Harper Government, but I always had respect for Flaherty and the job he's been doing as Finance Minister. I'm not sure who the CPC has in cabinet who is ready to step into such an important portfolio. Maybe Tony Clement or Joe Oliver?
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I have a single income household, would this income splitting thing help me? Any good primer on what it means
If you consider transferring $50k (I think that's the limit) of your income taxed at bracket 'x' to your spouse at a lower bracket "help" than yes, it could help you...

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Old 03-18-2014, 04:34 PM   #11
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Considering the global financial problems that he had to deal with I think he did a pretty good job. Big shoes to fill, Harper needs to find a really good replacement in the lead up to an election year.
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usually you consider your finance minister to be your bull pen guy in your succession planning if the Prime Minister decides to retire. Who his replacement is could be telling.
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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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Flaherty did a good job limiting the debt from the global meltdown better than most countries. Canada will have a surplus next year as well, how many countries can say that? This was done while decreasing taxes and introducing the TFSA.
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Looks like we have a winner...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/joe-...ster-1.2577648

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Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver will become the federal government's new finance minister, replacing Jim Flaherty who announced his resignation earlier on Tuesday, CBC News has learned.
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Old 03-18-2014, 07:43 PM   #16
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Oliver will probably just put everything on cruise control until the next election barring any major problems popping up in the meantime. By all accounts the budget is already balanced.
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I think the Conservatives lack of depth will start to show
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Old 03-19-2014, 04:02 AM   #18
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Yeah he was a pretty decent finance minister. Not sure who would be rejoicing over him leaving. That said, I'm not 'mourning' either. He did a good job, but he wasn't a wizard or anything, in fact, he was just rather safe. Which is probably a good thing, it just won't inspire strong reactions either way I don't think.
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Flaherty did a fine job in limiting spending and cutting both GST and corporate tax rates. Oliver with his Bay street experience should be a good fit.
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Yeah he was a pretty decent finance minister. Not sure who would be rejoicing over him leaving. That said, I'm not 'mourning' either. He did a good job, but he wasn't a wizard or anything, in fact, he was just rather safe. Which is probably a good thing, it just won't inspire strong reactions either way I don't think.
Mortgage brokers will...

I kid, I kid, I do understand the majority of decisions he made were necessary.
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