Morneau’s new memoir Where To From Here highlights positive role Ottawa can play, takes shots at Trudeau and warns of threats of increasingly partisan politics
Former federal finance minister Bill Morneau sees a bright future for Canada. What he doesn’t envision is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leading the country to this promised land.
While in cabinet, Mr. Morneau said the PMO’s short-term political goals – winning that day’s headline – came to dominate long-term planning, a problem that became more acute after Gerald Butts resigned as the Prime Minister’s principal secretary in February, 2019. He pointed in the book to consistent overspending on support during the pandemic, with the size of programs recommended by the Finance Department boosted by the PMO “because the numbers sounded good.
As finance minister, Mr. Morneau’s priorities included navigating the pandemic, finding a sustainable funding approach for provincially run health care systems and weaning the economy off fossil fuels. Postpolitics, the former CEO of benefits consulting firm LifeWorks, formerly known as Morneau Shepell, wrote his memoir as part of a plan to continue working on health care and energy transition policies.
In the book, Mr. Morneau used the uproar around the WE scandal to illustrate the increasingly partisan mentality of politics, at all levels. He said opposition parties used the controversy to personally attack him and the Prime Minister, who was eventually cleared of conflict by Mr. Dion.
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