Waterloo MP Bardish Chagger loses post in Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle

Waterloo MP Bardish Chagger not has a seat on the desk, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced a brand new cupboard on Tuesday.

Chagger returns to a job as a backbencher after having held the function of minister of variety and inclusion and youth since 2019.

She moved into that place after having beforehand served as minister for small enterprise and tourism.

Chagger shall be changed by Ahmed Hussen, a Liberal MP from Mississauga who has beforehand served as minister of households, youngsters and social growth and minister of immigration, citizenship and refugees.

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Total, Trudeau’s cupboard expanded to 39, with a dozen of these coming from the Higher Toronto Space.

The transfer leaves the Waterloo Area and Guelph with no seat on the cupboard desk even though 5 of the seven ridings within the space went crimson on this fall’s federal election.

Chagger was not alone in shedding a put up as Marc Garneau was changed as overseas affairs minister by Melanie Joly, whereas Jim Carr will not function Trudeau’s particular consultant for the Prairies after being identified with most cancers.

Solely 10 ministers in Trudeau’s final cupboard are staying put, together with Justice Minister David Lametti and Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough.

—with information from The Canadian Press