Top Finance Aide Steps Down After Trudeau Details Deficit
- Deputy’s departure adds to changing of economic guard
- Move follows new minister and overhaul in Bank of Canada ranks
Chrystia Freeland speaks at an Ottawa news conference on Nov. 30 before presenting a fiscal update.
Photographer: Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press/Bloomberg
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The top bureaucrat at Canada’s finance ministry announced he is leaving his post a day after Justin Trudeau’s government unveiled an update on hundreds of billions in emergency Covid-19 spending.
Deputy Finance Minister Paul Rochon said his last day is Dec. 14, according to an email to the department Tuesday obtained by Bloomberg. He is the fourth major economic policy maker in the country to leave their post this year.