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“You get the impression she’s very good with secrets,” said Liberal MP Justin Trudeau, who became a client after he met Ms. Capovilla at a political event four years ago. “She’s part of the Ottawa circle. She fits in very well, and she’s very smart about it.”

She appeared on the arm of Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, another client, at the Politics & the Pen gala at the Chateau Laurier on April 25.

Ms. Capovilla also cuts Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s hair, clipped Mr. Trudeau’s curls only two weeks ago, and last month lobbed nine inches off Senator Patrick Brazeau’s signature ponytail in the House of Commons foyer after he lost a boxing match to Mr. Trudeau [Mr. Brazeau said she leaned in and whispered, “You must hate me right now.”].

Jim Flaherty has made it a ritual to have his hair cut for Budget Day. He, like all male clients, pays $40 for a cut.

“This has become such a part of my pre-budget routine, that one year due to scheduling and time constraints, she even had to cut my hair at the Finance department!” Mr. Flaherty said in an email. “This year she turned journalist on me and interviewed me while I was getting my hair cut. I was thinking ‘Don’t I come here to get a break from this?’ But she did a good job.”

On Jim Flaherty’s budget pompadour: ‘Of all the days to do something different with his hair, I probably shouldn’t have picked that day’

Ms. Capovilla said she is still “haunted” by the minister’s Budget 2010 hairdo that made headlines as somewhat of a pompadour.