RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:LOOKS LIKE I WAS CORRECT COO LINDSEY STILES TERMINATEDYup, Canadian politics is full of folks with few apparent credentials. Pierre Pollievre, near as I can figure, has a BA and little or no private sector experience. Andrew Scheer, with his BA, at least got 6 or 7 months work at an insurance brokerage, although not as a broker as he advertised. The good news is that Erin O'Toole was a private sector lawyer. I suppose that experience was too much, so he got thrown under the bus. On the other side of the aisle, Freeland completed a bachelor's degree at Harvard University and a masters degree at Oxford University, none of which was in finance. At least she spent some time in the private sector, working in editorial positions at the Financial Times, The Globe and Mail and Reuters, becoming managing director of the latter. She wrote a book - Plutocrats - that was the winner of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize for non-fiction reporting on foreign affairs and it also won the 2013 National Business Book Award for the most outstanding Canadian business-related book. The new Conservative finance critic at least has an accounting diploma.
Having said that, perhaps we're looking for a different skill set amongst our politicians...
pennydredful wrote: Remember the WE scandal Bill Morneau finance minister took the fall for Trudeau . Now we have a former news reporter as Finance Minister .