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‘I Was 36 Before I Figured It Out’ Minister Seamus O’Regan on ditching alcohol, coming out, and rising in Trudeau’s ranks. Second of two. Michael Harris, a Tyee contributing editor, is a highly-awarded journalist and documentary maker. His investigations have sparked four commissions of inquiry. SHARES ‘Repressing my sexuality’ says Seamus O’Regan, caused him to drink heavily. After rehab, he entered cabinet as Justin Trudeau’s minister of veterans affairs and now is minister of natural resources. Photo: Adrian Wyld, the Canadian Press. The horrors of more than 300 children abused at Mount Cashel orphanage in St. John’s came to light while Seamus O’Regan grew up in the same province. The message for him, son of a judge, was the need to think critically when power commands. “What marked me as a boy in Newfoundland was Mount Cashel. People deferred to authority back then, and I saw where that could go.” ....