Canada PM shuffles top Cabinet players ahead of election
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January 13, 2021
OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named a new foreign minister on Tuesday and shuffled other top players in his Cabinet ahead of an election that insiders in his Liberal Party say is likely this year.
Trudeau’s hand was forced when Innovations Minister Navdeep Bains, 43, unexpectedly announced he was resigning from politics for family reasons. Bains, who has two school-age daughters and had been in the job since November 2015, was a senior minister in the populous province of Ontario, a Liberal stronghold.
Canadian prime ministers traditionally shuffle their team if a Cabinet member says they will not run in the next election.Francois-Philippe Champagne, 50, will leave the foreign ministry to take over for Bains.
TORONTO The CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) says organizing a boycott of next year s Games in Beijing would be the wrong approach to addressing human rights issues in China. David Shoemaker, the committee s CEO and secretary-general, told CTVNews.ca on Wednesday that the organization is preparing to participate at the 2022 Winter Olympics, which are scheduled to take place next February. We have concerns about what we are hearing is occurring in the host country and we know the Government of Canada is addressing these issues on a government-to-government basis, he said in a statement. The Canadian Olympic Committee believes that sport has a unique power to bring the world together, to create dialogue and build understanding through important people-to-people connections.
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Omar Alghabra became Canada s first minister of Syrian descent after he was appointed to the Cabinet by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a reshuffle on Tuesday.
Mr Alghabra is also the first minister of Arab descent in the Cabinet since Pierre De Bane in the late 1970s, when Mr Trudeau s father Pierre was prime minister.
Previously parliamentary secretary to the prime minister, Mr Alghabra was first elected as the member of parliament for Mississauga Centre in 2015, and served as the member for Mississauga-Erindale from 2006 to 2008.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled some key front bench posts in a cabinet shakeup Tuesday morning, prompted by longtime Liberal Navdeep Bains decision to step down as a minister.