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Bloomberg
Justin Trudeau is resetting after a rocky year dented his chances of re-election.
The Canadian prime minister shuffled his cabinet on Wednesday, swapping roles like trade and natural resources — amid the purchase and eventual resale of Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline — while leaving key posts like finance and foreign affairs unchanged, ensuring a continuity of ties with Donald Trump’s administration.
It’s a summer reload after a year in which his polling lead evaporated, leaving him in a dead heat with the opposition Conservatives ahead of an election in October 2019.
Ontario, the country’s most populous province, just ushered in Doug Ford, a populist conservative, as premier, while other provinces look set to swing right in the coming months. It will leave Trudeau battling on three fronts: with premiers; with Trump and his protectionist trade agenda; and with an emboldened opposition in the federal legislature.
The shuffle is one of Trudeau’s biggest reorganisations since he took power in November 2015. Jim Carr, who had been natural resources minister, will now be trade minister, while Francois-Philippe Champagne, the former trade minister, is now in charge of the infrastructure file. Amarjeet Sohi takes over at natural resources.