Posted AT 3:47 AM EDT on 19/02/07
Accused bureaucrat was asked to evaluate income trust options
When the Department of Finance needed to come up with a tax policy on income trusts quickly in the fall of 2005, officials turned to a trusted, hard-working bureaucrat -- Serge Nadeau.
It was late November and the Liberal minority government was in its dying days. Then-finance-minister Ralph Goodale was wrestling with what to do with income trusts and he needed something to say before an election was called. By Nov.
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