Paul Rochon, Finance Canada’s highest-ranking bureaucrat for the past six and a half years, announced internally on Tuesday that he would be stepping down from the job effective December 14.
Rochon is a veteran at Finance Canada, having occupying various important roles for over 20 years. He also served briefly as deputy minister of International Development between 2013 and 2014.
Rochon’s retirement from the public service also comes less than four months after the sudden resignation of former Finance Minister Bill Morneau, whom Prime Minister Justin Trudeau replaced with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.
“Rochon is an excellent public servant. He was an island of fiscal sanity within this government,” Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre wrote on social media after news of the resignation broke.
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