"The message from Ottawa"? Good grief. Do people actually think and speak like this? In any case, the most important cabinet minister is Minister of Finance and Morneau has yet to show that he is in the same league as Michael Wilson (Mulroney) or Paul Martin (Chretien) who spent most of their time fixing the mess left by the cabinets of the 1970s and the early 1980s. In 1968 Canada was the second wealthiest country on earth (tied with Sweden) in terms of per capita GNP. By the early 80s it was somewhere around 10th or even 15th.