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Who is Champagne, the minister selling Canadians on Carney’s 1st budget?

Who is Champagne, the minister selling Canadians on Carney’s 1st budget?

Champagne is an old-school retail politician who prefers pressing the flesh to digital communications. Liberals tend to describe him with one word: gregarious.

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