Canada’s Trudeau reshuffles cabinet amid persistent pressure to resign
Al Jazeera
Shakeup comes as Canadian prime minister is mulling his future as Liberal Party leader after top minister’s resignation.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reshuffled his cabinet, just days after his top deputy resigned in a move that sent shockwaves across the country and renewed calls for Trudeau to step down as head of the Liberal Party.
The prime minister welcomed the members of his new cabinet during a swearing-in ceremony in the capital Ottawa on Friday.
Among the most important portfolios, Ontario MP David McGuinty was named as Canada’s minister of public safety, overseeing federal law enforcement agencies.
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who also represents an electoral district in Ontario, will be the country’s new housing minister.
The shakeup comes after Canada’s finance minister and deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, announced on Monday that she was resigning amid a disagreement with Trudeau over how to handle a possible “tariff war” with the United States.
