Canada’s new Finance Minister, the Honourable Joe Oliver being sworn in. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/fDam51YD6N
— Stephen Harper (@pmharper) March 19, 2014
We have a new finance minister. And there’s no getting around it — he’s old. In fact, according to the Library of Parliament, no finance minister in our history has ever been as old as Joe Oliver upon taking up his duties as Finance minister. Oliver will be 74-years-old on May 20. He’s got a decent shot at being the oldest finance minister ever but the Conservatives would have to win 2015 general election and Oliver would have to be re-appointed as finance minister. The oldest finance minister in our history was also the one who served in the post the longest: Liberal William Stevens Fielding who, when he retired in 1925, was 76, 9 months and 10 days old. Continue reading Ye Olde Finance Minister: Notes on Joe, Greg, and Ed