Flaherty's health is in question

Jim Flaherty has missed two G20 meetings in Moscow after falling ill in the past few days.

According to the Gazette, finance official Kathleen Perchaluk said Minister Flaherty became ill after arriving in Moscow and was unable to attend the meetings on Friday and Saturday.

The meetings were being held to discuss ways of getting the global economy back on track and growing again.

While the Minister may have contracted a stomach ailment, he was not hospitalized, and it is not connected to his skin condition.

Associate deputy minister Jean Boivin and Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz sat in for Flaherty during the meetings.

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STORY WRITTEN BY: CATLIN SPENCER