{"id":33604,"date":"2023-07-26T16:14:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T16:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=33604"},"modified":"2023-07-26T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T16:14:29","slug":"several-ministers-are-out-as-trudeau-shakes-up-canadas-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=33604","title":{"rendered":"Several ministers are out as Trudeau shakes up Canada’s Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ABC News: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a major Cabinet shake-up on Wednesday as he readies his team for the next federal election<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trudeau removed seven ministers and changed two-thirds of the portfolios. Defense, justice, public safety, health, heritage, fisheries and procurement are among the departments with new ministers. Only seven ministers are keeping their portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several ministers are out after saying they wouldn’t run in the next election, which must take place by October 2025, but it could be called well before then. Polls indicate Trudeau\u2019s Liberal Party is trailing the rival Conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trudeau channeled the star power of his father, the Liberal icon and late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, when he first won in 2015, but scandals and economic inflation have taken a toll after eight years in power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trudeau\u2019s legacy includes embracing immigration at a time when the U.S. and other countries closed their doors. He also legalized cannabis nationwide, brought in a carbon tax to fight climate change and brought in affordable child care. And he preserved a free trade deal with the U.S. and Mexico amid threats by former U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> to scrap the agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will remain in both jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anita Anand, who has led Canada\u2019s response to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, is leaving the defense portfolio to become president of the Treasury Board, while former Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair is replacing her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minister of Intergovernmental Affair Dominic LeBlanc is adding public safety to his portfolio, former immigration minister Sean Fraser becomes housing minister and Marc Miller is taking on immigration. Cabinet newcomer Arif Virani is taking on justice, replacing outgoing minister David Lametti. Mark Holland, who was the government House leader, becomes health minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marco Mendicino, the outgoing public safety minister, thanked the prime minister and said he would run in the next election despite being bumped from the Cabinet. Mendicino recently faced criticism for his office\u2019s handling of the recent prison transfer of a notorious serial killer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cabinet is gender-balanced, a trend that Trudeau has kept up since he was first elected in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trudeau leads a stable minority government that is backed by the opposition leftist New Democrat party. Together, the two parties have enough seats in Parliament to pass legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is not unusual for a prime minister to shuffle his Cabinet about halfway through a term. What is unusual is the scope of the shuffle,\u201d said Nelson Wiseman, a political science professor at the University of Toronto. \u201cThe Trudeau Liberals have been on the defensive for some time. They will continue to be so despite the changing face of Cabinet and the new titles for ministers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiseman doesn\u2019t expect an election anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTen years has been about the average shelf life of prime ministers for the past 75 years. Trudeau is approaching that mark. After failing to win majorities two elections in a row, it is highly unlikely he will be able to secure a majority in any future election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABC News: TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a major Cabinet shake-up on Wednesday as he readies his team for the next federal election. Trudeau removed seven ministers and changed two-thirds of the portfolios. Defense, justice, public safety, health, heritage, fisheries and procurement are among the departments with new ministers. Only seven ministers are keeping their portfolio. Several ministers are out after saying they wouldn’t run in the next election, which must take place by October 2025, but it could be called well before then. Polls indicate Trudeau\u2019s Liberal Party is trailing the rival Conservatives. Trudeau channeled the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33606,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33604\/revisions\/33606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}