Ottawa

It just came out of nowhere!

For some reason, the last line of this story made me giggle. It makes it sound as though Flaherty is going to trip over a pile of budget documents on the way to his desk and land spread-eagled in the centre aisle of the House of Commons, blinking confusedly. Then again, that’s not a bad description of what happened with the fall economic statement, come to think of it.

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