Jim Flaherty's values were forged by blue-collar roots, a big Irish family and heartbreaking adversity
CRAIG OFFMAN- Published
Right from birth, the odds were stacked against Jim Flaherty's success.
The sixth of eight children in a family of Liberal supporters. A hockey player measuring in at 5-foot-3. A kid from a blue-collar suburb navigating the leafy, gentlemanly climes of Princeton University. A twice-defeated candidate for leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives. Hands on the country's purse strings just as all the money was vanishing.
CRAIG OFFMAN- Published 