{"id":62682,"date":"2017-01-10T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/chrystia-freeland-becomes-foreign-minister-as-trudeau-shuffles-cabinet.html"},"modified":"2017-01-10T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:24:53","slug":"chrystia-freeland-becomes-foreign-minister-as-trudeau-shuffles-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/chrystia-freeland-becomes-foreign-minister-as-trudeau-shuffles-cabinet.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrystia Freeland becomes foreign minister as Trudeau shuffles cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chrystia Freeland will be appointed Canada&#8217;s new minister of foreign affairs in a sweeping Liberal cabinet shakeup\u00a0to be announced later today, CBC News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Freeland, who leaves the international trade portfolio, will replace St\u00e9phane\u00a0Dion, who is leaving politics to take a diplomatic post.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration Minister John McCallum\u00a0is also\u00a0leaving politics and will be named Canada&#8217;s ambassador to China.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes to be announced today,\u00a0confirmed by CBC News:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne\u00a0will become minister of international trade.<\/li>\n<li>Patty Hajdu will move from status of women to labour.<\/li>\n<li>Maryam Monsef will transfer from democratic institutions to status of women.<\/li>\n<li>Karina Gould will be named minister of democratic institutions.<\/li>\n<li>Ahmed Hussen become minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hussen, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Canada&#8217;s first-ever MP of Somali descent<\/a>, is a lawyer and community activist in the Toronto riding of York South-Weston.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/6dc55_ahmed-hussen.png\" alt=\"Ahmed Hussen\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">Ahmed Hussen, the Liberal MP for the Toronto-area riding of York South-Weston, will be Canada&#8217;s new minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship. (CBC Marketplace)<\/p>\n<p>Gould, 29, a former trade and development worker who represents the riding of Burlington, Ont., was promoted from her previous role as parliamentary secretary to the minister of International Development.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Champagne, a first-term MP for\u00a0the Quebec riding of Saint-Maurice\u2013Champlain, is a former businessman and\u00a0lawyer. He was considered a strong performer as parliamentary secretary to Finance Minister Bill Morneau.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<h2>McCallum, Dion\u00a0assume ambassador roles<\/h2>\n<p>McCallum, 65, served as defence minister under Jean Chr\u00e9tien and presided over the\u00a0veteran affairs file in Paul Martin&#8217;s cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>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<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/b8aa6_question-period-20160216.jpg\" alt=\"Question Period 20160216\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">Liberal MP Karina Gould will head up the democratic institutions file. (Sean Kilpatrick\/Canadian Press)<\/p>\n<p>Monsef, the Ontario MP for Peterborough-Kawartha, has taken criticism\u00a0for her handling of the electoral reform file, and was <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">forced to apologize<\/a>\u00a0last month for accusing MPs on the special committee studying the issue of shirking their duties.<\/p>\n<p>Sources also told\u00a0CBC News\u00a0MaryAnn\u00a0Mihychuk\u00a0will be shuffled out of her office as minister\u00a0of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau&#8217;s\u00a0cabinet was sworn in just over 14 months ago with an even number of men and women, but has already seen a few changes.<\/p>\n<p>Last May, former fisheries minister\u00a0Hunter Tootoo was dropped from cabinet\u00a0for personal reasons and replaced by former government House leader Dominic LeBlanc. In a midsummer move, Small Business and Tourism Minister\u00a0Bardish Chagger was handed LeBlanc&#8217;s House leader duties.<\/p>\n<p>The inauguration next week of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has put new focus on the government&#8217;s handling of the Canada-U.S. relationship. A shuffle allows Trudeau to move perceived strong ministers into roles that are critical to that relationship while addressing some of the weaker performers.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/b8aa6_maryann-mihychuk-maryam-monsef-stephane-dion.jpg\" alt=\"MaryAnn Mihychuk Maryam Monsef St\u00e9phane Dion\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">MaryAnn Mihychuk, Maryam Monsef and St\u00e9phane Dion are all being moved out of their current portfolios in Tuesday&#8217;s cabinet shuffle, sources tell CBC News. (Canadian Press)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/liberal-government-cabinet-shuffle-2017-1.3928723?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrystia Freeland will be appointed Canada&#8217;s new minister of foreign affairs in a sweeping Liberal cabinet shakeup\u00a0to be announced later today, CBC News has learned. Freeland, who leaves the international trade portfolio, will replace St\u00e9phane\u00a0Dion, who is leaving politics to take a diplomatic post. Immigration Minister John McCallum\u00a0is also\u00a0leaving politics and will be named Canada&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-62682","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\/62682","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=62682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}