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OTTAWA — Finance Minister Bill Morneau said he will go out of his way to reassure Canadians his personal fortune will not get in the way of his job, but his political rivals are not about to let things go that easily.

“The rules work, but what we will consider in my situation is how the population can be absolutely certain there will be no possibility of a conflict,” Morneau said Wednesday as he appeared at an Ottawa centre for adolescent mothers and their children to promote his fall fiscal update.

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“That’s why I will do more than the recommendations,” Morneau said. “That’s why I will work with the ethics commissioner to make sure that the situation that I have had over the past two years, without a conflict, will continue with the confidence of Canadians.”

The finance minister said he is sitting down with the federal ethics watchdog on Thursday to discuss how he can go above and beyond what has already been done to make sure that he does not come into any conflict of interest.