Renowned and respected Liberal Parliamentarian and former deputy prime minister Herb Ray dies. Stephen Harper does NOT grant him a State funeral, despite granting one to Conservative Jim Flaherty a week earlier. [State funerals are offered at the whim of the Prime Minister: a “Gray area”.]
As per tradition, Canada’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty buys new shoes for delivering the Budget: steel toed to make it easier to give charities the boot! [The Conservative Govt. has threatened to pull charitable status from some environmental groups.]
The Provinces are united in condemning Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and the Harper Conservative Government for refusing to implement plans to strengthen the Canada Pension Plan
Jim Love, Canadian Mint Chairman and advisor to the Federal Finance Department and to former Prime Minister Arthur Meighan, helped several wealthy Canadians transfer 8 million dollars to off-shore accounts in a tax-avoidance scheme
Ethics advisor Mary Dawson chastises Conservative MPs David Anderson and Jim Flaherty for interfering in the CRTC [Canadian Radio-TV and Telecommunications Commission] deliberations.