Quebec’s finance minister meets with McGill community to talk budget
Quebec’s finance minister, Carlos Leitão, is touring the province’s universities to consult students and other university members ahead of the provincial budget. The agenda is heavy on fiscal policy, public infrastructure investment, regional development and the social safety net. So far, Mr. Leitão has been to the University of Sherbrooke, Laval University and Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
On February 6th, he visited McGill University for a Q&A session hosted by the Desautels Faculty of Management. Professor Steve Fortin, Director of the MBA Program at Desautels, was on-hand to moderate as the Minister answered questions posed by members of the McGill community, including undergraduate and graduate students, as well as University administrators.
Mr. Leitão complete his Bachelor of Arts at McGill University in 1979. Before entering politics, he was an economist at the Royal Bank of Canada, then chief economist at the Laurentian Bank of Canada.
Read full article: Radio Canada, February 3, 2017
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