Prime Minister Stephen Harper shuffled his cabinet Monday, moving veterans Jason Kenney to defence and Rob Nicholson to foreign affairs, and giving Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre two extra portfolios: employment and social development, and responsibility for the National Capital Commission.
Harper was forced to shuffle his cabinet with John Baird’s sudden resignation last week as Foreign Affairs minister.
In naming Nicholson and Kenney in particular, the prime minister was signalling that he needs experience, rather than fresh faces, in two portfolios that have become critical to his government. Canada currently has deployed military personnel to fight the ISIL extremists in …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
