Posted AT 3:30 AM EDT on 24/10/07
Flaherty's far-fetched pleas
Yesterday, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty met with some of Canada's leading retail executives, urging them to cut prices in response to the soaring Canadian dollar. That meeting, plus $4, will get you a latte at Starbucks. In other words, the meeting itself was devoid of value.
Most amusingly, this spectacle was convened by a politician who's more deeply and personally committed to the notion of laissez-faire than probably any other finance minister in Canada's postwar history.
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