'Tears in the air': Reaction to the death of Jim Flaherty

Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty speaks with the media in the foyer of the House of Commons in Ottawa on Dec. 14, 2012. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

From both sides of the House of Commons, politicians on Twitter expressed their shock and grief over the death of former Conservative finance minister Jim Flaherty, who had a heart attack on April 10, 2014. They also shared memories, of which there were plenty, of a man one Tory minister remembered fondly as an "Irish lion."

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