Politics Insider for March 19: Canada's top bureaucrat calls it quits, Liberals want SNC-Lavalin investigation to just end already, and inside the Alberta UCP's 'kamikaze' campaign
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in the coming weeks he will appoint deputy minister of foreign affairs Ian Shugart as Wernick’s replacement. So to recap, in just seven weeks Trudeau has accepted resignation letters from ambassador to China John McCallum over his comments in the Meng Wanzhou case , Wilson-Raybould , principal secretary Gerald Butts , senior cabinet minister Jane Philpott and now Wernick.
Mini-shuffle: Trudeau shook up his cabinet for the third time in three months Monday, naming MP Joyce Murray, a vocal opponent of the Trans Mountain pipeline, to replace Philpott as Treasury Board president. Running a sham candidate alongside himself was the first major thing Kenney did to launch his newly formed United Conservative Party, even though he was the clear favourite to defeat rival Brian Jean—and Kenney’s vote share nearly doubled Jean’s, Jason Markusoff writes:
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