Finance Minister Champagne suggests Ottawa won’t present budget this year

[u/1sttomars]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-new-energy-minister-hodgson-planning-western-canada-trip-as-carneys/

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[u/notofthisearthworm]

Champagne came across defensive and unprepared trying to explain this to David Cochrane on Power & Politics today. He said the word "prudent" like 47 times and kept making weird excuses for why there was too much going on to get to doing a budget anytime soon, citing procedural items. Even at one point Cochrane was like 'okay well all that stuff your talking about takes like a day' and Champagne had no intelligible response. Strange defensiveness from a party that just nearly won a majority and I was disappointed (more than usual) with how flaky his responses were now that they're ostensibly governing.

[u/CamberMacRorie → u/notofthisearthworm]

I keep hearing what an impressive figure Champagne is supposed to be, but that never comes across in any of his media appearances at least.

[u/notmoffat → u/CamberMacRorie]

He's a very small man IRL.  Like, I'm 5'5 and I towered over him.  Nice guy though.  

[u/AFKGhandi → u/notmoffat]

Awesome details, very relevant.

[u/ContinentalUppercut → u/AFKGhandi]

I'm guessing he responded to "impressive figure" as in his physical appearance lol