Posts Tagged ‘Minister of Finance’
The eagerness of unnecessary Raymond Bachand
The half-truths by Jim Flaherty, it annoys you?
Monday, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced that the budget deficit for the current year will exceed the 37 billion earmarked in the budget. The next day he told us that this deficit will be at least 50 billion. And then tomorrow? (more...)Tags: economy., Francois Dupuis, Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance
Unfounded attack in place of Clement Gignac
Certainly, the entrance to the National Assembly of Clement Gignac not pass unnoticed, the opposition leader, Pauline Marois, it is charged yesterday. She was accused of having betrayed the Quebec because as advisor to the Deputy Minister of Finance in Ottawa, he worked to develop a committee of Canadian Securities. Clement Gignac is the Liberal candidate in the riding of Marguerite-Bourgeois in the election on June 22
I fear that Ms. Marois hits another foul ball, as it has struck many, I fear, in recent days in an effort to revive the issue of sovereignty in Quebec, and within his party. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Deputy Minister of Finance, Minister of Finance, Ottawa, Pauline Marois, Pierre Brunet, Quebec
The Caisse de depot: how are you really?
Just over six months after having narrowly avoided an inquiry and after welcoming a new president, the Caisse de depot was once again in the news last week following publication in the newspaper Press a text by Denis Lessard. The reason? Always the same, bad yields.
The scenario is almost the same as that ignited the financial press last November and which led the former president Henri-Paul Rousseau testified before the Finance Committee of the National Assembly. First, a leak from an applicant to the journalist reporting on the results known only to customers of the fund. Then, a series of statements and a few little confused with some contradictions on the part of the body and his ultimate boss, the finance minister Raymond Bachand. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Canadian Press, economy., financial press, Minister of Finance, Not Classified, Raymond Bachand, Sylvain Larocque -- Categories: Bank
