Trudeau to shuffle cabinet Friday after Freeland’s resignation: sources

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet on Friday, just days after the shock resignation of Chrystia Freeland as finance minister, Global News has learned.

Trudeau will gather his new cabinet appointees at Rideau Hall Friday morning to be sworn into their new positions, two sources say.

Freeland’s resignation, which threw Trudeau’s government into chaos on Monday, came after a number of other cabinet ministers either stepped down from their positions or announced they don’t plan to run in the next election.

Among the positions that is expected to be shifted to another Liberal MP is public safety minister, after Dominic LeBlanc was named by Trudeau to take on Freeland’s role as finance minister. He also holds the intergovernmental affairs portfolio and chairs the revived U.S.-Canada relations cabinet committee.

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Housing Minister Sean Fraser, who announced he would be stepping down from cabinet moments before Freeland’s announcement, is also expected to be replaced.

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