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Trudeau expected to shuffle federal cabinet Monday: source

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March 18th 2019
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in an armchair discussion at the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association Annual General Meeting in Ottawa on Saturday, March 9, 2019. Photo by The Canadian Press/Justin Tang

A senior government official says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to shuffle the federal cabinet on Monday.

This will be the third time the prime minister switches up his roster this year.

In January, Trudeau moved Jody Wilson-Raybould to veterans affairs from the justice portfolio, which went to David Lametti.

The prime minister made a few more changes earlier this month to fill the void left by Wilson-Raybould after she resigned from cabinet amid the ongoing SNC-Lavalin controversy.

A few days after the mini-shuffle, Jane Philpott also stepped down from cabinet, saying she had lost confidence in the government over its handling of the SNC-Lavalin issue.

Philpott had served as president of the Treasury Board.

March 18th 2019

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Joanne | March 18th 2019, 07:14 pm

Reports on cabinet shuffling are not completely accurate if they continue to omit reporting of the first cabinet position offer that PM Trudeau gave to JodyWR which was INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS. She refused this cabinet post, and so, PM Trudeau offered her Veterans Affairs. Failure to remind readers of this presents a less than accurate presentation of events. That JWR was offered Indigenous Affairs and turned it down is a fairly relevant piece of information, and it would be better to include it, since the time it was first revealed before the Judicial Committee hearings. If you are going to inform us, let's have the whole picture.