Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to announce a significant cabinet reshuffle on Friday, promoting several Liberal backbenchers to ministerial roles. This comes after the resignation of Chrystia Freeland and other recent departures from the cabinet.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning a sizable cabinet shuffle on Friday, and it's shaping up to see several Liberal backbenchers promoted to ministerial posts, sources confirm to CTV News. The long-awaited reconfiguration of Trudeau's front bench comes amid turmoil for the Liberal government after the shocking resignation of Chrystia Freeland.
It also comes as a few ministers juggle multiple portfolios, as several ministers in recent months have either left their cabinet positions or have declared they are not seeking re-election. Ontario MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith will become Canada's next housing minister, after making the issue a key plank of his provincial Liberal leadership bid, and after initially indicating he wouldn't be running again.CTV News asked Erskine-Smith on Wednesday about his then-rumoured promotion and he said if he was presented the opportunity to 'make a difference on a file like that, it would definitely change my thinking.' The job opened up on Monday, when Nova Scotian Sean Fraser announced he wouldn't be running again, within the same hour that Freeland's letter dropped. And, taking over the public safety portfolio from Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc – who took on the top economic post on Monday after Freeland quit – will be Ontario MP David McGuinty. He will roll into his new role likely needing little briefing, as he's been the chair of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) since it started in 2017. The top-secret panel has been deeply involved in studying foreign interference and other national security matters. In a scrum with reporters on Monday evening, McGuinty denied being asked to resign or take a different job to give former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney a place to run. 'Absolutely not. You know there's a lot of hearsay, a lot of speculation, a lot of gossip going on'
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