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| Joe Oliver |
Joe Oliver, the MP for Eglinton-Lawrence, will be Canada’s new Finance Minister. Mr. Oliver will replace Jim Flaherty. He has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and worked as an investment banker, starting his career with Merrill Lynch. Oliver, 73, has also served as the executive director of the Ontario Securities Commission, and the CEO of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada. Eglinton-Lawrence was created in 1976 from parts of Eglinton, St. Paul’s, York Centre, York South, and York West. Federally, it was represented by Liberal Joe Volpe from 1988 to 2011, and by Mr. Oliver since the 2011 federal election. On Toronto City Council, the western half of the riding is represented by Josh Colle (Ward 15) and the eastern portion by Karen Stintz (Ward 16). w/Wikipedia
