Housing Minister Sean Fraser will announce Monday that he will not seek re-election in Nova Scotia and will resign from federal cabinet during the next cabinet reshuffle, CBC News reported.
Sources said a cabinet reshuffle could take place as early as Wednesday.
A move to shake up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s inner circle before the Christmas break comes as the prime minister and his senior advisers make more efforts to persuade former Bank of Canada chief Mark Carney to join the cabinet, according to senior Liberal Party officials. It is taking place during the start.
Carney’s continued attempts to persuade him to join the Cabinet were first reported by the Globe and Mail. Liberal sources told CBC News that Mr. Carney is more open to the idea than before, but no deal has been reached yet.
But while trying to add Carney, Downing Street is also preparing to lose Fraser, who is widely seen as one of the Liberal Party’s best communicators and has been in charge of the politically important housing ministry. There is.
Sources said Fraser was leaving the company for family reasons, something he had previously commented on publicly. The time and travel his portfolio requires makes it difficult to spend time biking in rural Nova Scotia with his wife, eight-year-old daughter, and three-year-old son.
Conservative leader Pierre Poièvre and Housing Minister Sean Fraser engaged in an increasingly heated exchange during Tuesday’s question period, with Poièvre opening the meeting by asking whether GST would be applied to new homes sold for less than $1 million. He asked about his pledge to abolish it. The two continued to call each other arrogant and incompetent.
Fraser has represented the Central Nova faction in the House of Commons since 2015. Mr. Fraser’s departure further increases the need for Mr. Trudeau to add new blood to his cabinet.
He already has to replace cabinet ministers who are not expected to seek re-election, including National Revenue Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau. Karla Qualtrough, Minister of Sports; Philomena Tassi, Minister of Economic Development for Southern Ontario; Northern Minister Dan Vandal.
This will continue in the future.
