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Cabinet shuffle in Canada
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/trudeau-taps-two-rookies-moves-three-ministers-in-cabinet-shakeup-1.4252109
Trudeau has moved minister Jane Philpott into the newly-vacated role as president of the Treasury Board and minister of digital government. This spot needed filling after long-time MP Scott Brison announced last week that he was resigning from cabinet because he will not be seeing re-election in 2019.
Philpott moves out of her role as Indigenous services minister, a cabinet post created in 2017 as part of an effort to reset the nation-to-nation relationship with Indigenous people.
That job is now Newfoundland MP Seamus O'Regan's, who is being shuffled out of the Veterans Affairs portfolio, a job he's had since joining cabinet in that same 2017 shuffle.
Jody Wilson-Raybould is out as justice minister, a job she's had since 2015, and has been shuffled into the Veterans Affairs job.
Replacing her as Canada's new justice minister and attorney general is Quebec MP David Lametti, who had been serving as a parliamentary secretary for innovation.
Lametti, who in his new position will have the final decision on the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wangzhou.
Keeping in mind regional representation, Trudeau has promoted Nova Scotia MP Bernadette Jordan to cabinet in a new role, as minister of rural economic development.