
On April 10, 64-year-old Jim Flaherty suddenly passed away, shocking the entire nation of Canada. Jim Flaherty served as Canada's Finance Minister from 2006 until March 18, assisting Prime Minister Harper for eight years. He was born in 1949 to an Irish family in the suburbs of Montreal, won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in 2006, and became the Federal Finance Minister in the same year.





