The heady crowd gathered in Washington abruptly stopped their high-level meeting as stunned finance ministers from the G20 countries, including Canada’s Joe Oliver, learned that Jim Flaherty had died suddenly Thursday. After a brief moment of silence, discussions of economic policy were soon replaced with accolades for this country’s much admired  former finance minister. “They stopped the meeting to pay tribute to him,” a source close to the meeting told the Financial Post. “It was awesome for Canada, but more so for Jim.”

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