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Trudeau’s Finance Chief Chooses Words Carefully in Growth Chase

  • Morneau has two-track focus as Canada struggles to escape rut
  • Unlike predecessors, he doesn’t talk debt or balanced budgets
Bill Morneau.

Bill Morneau.

Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

Bill Morneau has growth -- and all its iterations -- on the mind.

The former chief executive of Morneau Shepell Inc. was tasked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last year with altering Canada’s growth trajectory. That’s no easy feat with the country’s economy mired in one of its worst-ever ruts outside a recession

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