Business Brief: What to make of Canada’s new Finance Minister

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Good morning. When the dust settled on a tornadic day in Ottawa, the federal government had a new Finance Minister and a fresh economic statement promising relief for cash-strapped Canadians. Today, we look at the man the Prime Minister tapped to take on the country’s most important economic portfolio – and the promises he’s suddenly on the hook to deliver. In the news Canada’s inflation rate dipped below the Bank of Canada’s 2-per-cent target for the second time in three months, the latest sign that the central bank has tamed inflationary pressures in the economy. Markets are now split over...