Dion\u00a0is out as foreign affairs minister, sources tell CBC News. Also leaving his position, sources said, is McCallum. The immediate future for both is unclear, as are\u00a0their replacements.<\/p>\n
The experienced Dion and McCallum, who represents Markham-Thornhill in Ontario, were among the relatively small group of Trudeau cabinet ministers with links to\u00a0previous Liberal governments.<\/p>\n
McCallum, 65, served as defence minister under Jean Chr\u00e9tien and in veteran affairs in Paul Martin’s cabinet.<\/p>\n
Dion, 61, was environment minister under Martin and then succeeded him as party leader, a position he held until shortly after the party lost 18 seats in a 2008 federal election defeat. Dion represents the Quebec riding of\u00a0Saint-Laurent.<\/p>\n
Democratic Institutions Minister\u00a0Maryam<\/span>\u00a0Monsef<\/span>, also from Ontario, who attracted controversy for her handling of the electoral reform file, will be moved out of the portfolio, sources told CBC News. The MP from Peterborough-Kawartha in will remain in cabinet, but it’s not clear in what position.<\/p>\n Sources also told\u00a0CBC News\u00a0MaryAnn<\/span>\u00a0Mihychuk<\/span>\u00a0will be shuffled out of her office as\u00a0Minister\u00a0of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, though there was no information on where the Manitoba MP from\u00a0Kildonan-St. Paul may end up.<\/p>\n Trudeau’s<\/span>\u00a0cabinet was sworn in just over 14 months ago but has already seen a few changes.<\/p>\n Last May, former fisheries minister Hunter Tootoo was dropped from cabinet<\/a> for personal reasons and replaced by former government House leader Dominic LeBlanc. In a mid-summer move, Small Business and Tourism Minister Bardish Chagger was handed LeBlanc’s House leader duties<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the inauguration next week of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has put new focus on the government’s handling of the Canada-U.S. relationship. A shuffle would allow Trudeau to move strong ministers into roles that are critical to that relationship, while also addressing some weaker performers.<\/p>\n Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to shuffle his cabinet Tuesday. (Adrian Wyld\/Canadian Press)<\/p>\n Sources also told Radio-Canada, CBC’s French-language service, that Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne is expected to be elevated to cabinet after a strong performance as Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s parliamentary secretary. Champagne is a first-term MP representing the Quebec riding of Saint-Maurice\u2013Champlain.<\/p>\n The timing of Tuesday’s cabinet shuffle was not immediately known.<\/p>\n Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/trudeau-cabinet-shuffle-1.3927947?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will make changes to his cabinet on Tuesday, including replacing St\u00e9phane Dion as foreign affairs minister and John McCallum\u00a0in\u00a0immigration, CBC News has\u00a0learned. The cabinet shuffle, first reported by The Canadian Press, comes as the prime minister prepares for a cross-Canada grassroots tour over the next few weeks. Cameron Ahmed, a spokesman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-62623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Trudeau](\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/75c7f_trudeau-reconciliation-20161215.jpg\")
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