{"id":21636,"date":"2014-08-13T00:43:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21636"},"modified":"2014-08-13T00:43:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T16:43:49","slug":"finance-minister-meets-with-business-leaders-economists-during-summer-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/13\/finance-minister-meets-with-business-leaders-economists-during-summer-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance minister meets with business leaders, economists during summer retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21637\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Joe-Oliver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21637\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Joe-Oliver.jpg\" alt=\"Canada's Minister of Finance Joe Oliver (Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Joe-Oliver.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Joe-Oliver-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canada&#8217;s Minister of Finance Joe Oliver (Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WAKEFIELD, Quebec &#8212; Finance Minister Joe Oliver will hear from business leaders, economists and others as he gathers opinions this week about Canada&#8217;s economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver is meeting with 16 invited guests at a summer retreat in Wakefield, Que., about an hour outside Ottawa, over the next two days.<\/p>\n<p>The minister will be looking for ideas on how to create jobs, but also wants feedback on the government&#8217;s current fiscal plan.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes on the heels of a report last week that showed Canada was bleeding full-time jobs last month.<\/p>\n<p>Many economist had predicted up to 20,000 jobs would be created, but there were just 200 overall, with part-time work largely replacing full-time positions.<\/p>\n<p>The annual retreat is billed as an opportunity for the finance minister to gather information in preparation for his fall economic update and the budget in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>It is Oliver&#8217;s first such gathering since being appointed to the position earlier this year to replace the late Jim Flaherty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAKEFIELD, Quebec &#8212; Finance Minister Joe Oliver will hear from business leaders, economists and others as he gathers opinions this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}