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Paul Rochon, left, deputy minister of finance since April 2014, will become a senior official at the Privy Council Office, effective Dec. 14, 2020. Michael Sabia, right, currently the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, and chair of the board of directors at the Canada Infrastructure Bank, will become the deputy minister of Finance, also effective Dec. 14, 2020. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
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