Michael Wilson, a Conservative, will be remembered for introducing the hated but fiendishly efficient value-added tax known as the GST. Jim Flaherty, another Conservative, will be remembered as the reluctant Keynesian who ran huge deficits in an effort to pull Canada from recession. Finance Minister Bill Morneau tables the federal budget documents in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks on. ( Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS )What legacy will Bill Morneau, the current Liberal federal finance minister, leave? At the macroeconomic level, Morneau continues his charmingly insouciant approach to deficits.

Source: thestar March 21, 2019 18:56 UTC