Former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau drops out of OECD campaign

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Former finance minister Bill Morneau says he is dropping out of the race to become secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

In a statement on Twitter today, Morneau says he did not have enough support from member countries to make it to the third round of the campaign.

Morneau, who became Trudeau's finance minister after the Liberals won the 2015 election, abruptly resigned from cabinet and as an MP last August.At the time, he said he would put his name forward as a candidate to succeed Angel Gurria as the next secretary-general of the OECD. But he was also facing opposition calls for his resignation over allegations that he had a conflict of interest in the WE Charity affair after he revealed the organization had paid for two trips he and his family took to Kenya and Ecuador in 2017.

The federal ethics watchdog has cleared Morneau of failing to disclose a gift from WE Charity but continues to probe whether he breached the Conflict of Interest Act by failing to recuse himself from the cabinet decision to pay the charity $43.5 million to manage a since-cancelled student grant program.

 

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Wow so surprising 🙄

😄😃😆😅🤣😛

Bill Morneau gets Payetted

There's a Governal General position open...

They were looking for someone who had some ethics

Well you can’t lead from jail

Trudeau = no UN seat, now Moreau = no OECD, it appears that working for the current Liberal federal govt does not look good on a resume.

He’s obsessive compulsive?

Take away the pension..... signed Canada

ctvqp It was a long shot, OECD face saving?

ctvqp Another Trudeau failure

ctvqp You mean booted out because he didn’t get enough votes to proceed. Just like Trudeau booted him out to cover up WE scandal.

Crook

That can only mean 1 thing......he didn’t have a snowballs chance in hell of getting the job!

And who says all news is bad!

Canada has been irrelevant to the rest of the world since 2015. People outside of Canada laugh at thise loyal to the likes of Trudeau and Morneau.

Wasn’t there an article yesterday about him making it to the next round? Makes on wonder if something is about to come to light.

Always good to have three peat unethical Finance Minister on your CV.

If 15-20 staff loaned to him from the liberal_party cannot polish that turd, nothing can. oecd realized he was pure cancer after his stint as FM. Good riddance.

How much did this boondoggle cost us

Probably because then he would have to work at a real job...

Apparently the OECD would prefer not to be represented by an incompetent and criminally corrupt Liberal ex-finance minister who had to resign in shame. I wonder why?

The world has realized this guy is not intelligent.

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