4 more Liberal cabinet ministers not seeking re-election: sources
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Four more federal cabinet ministers will not run in the next election, Global News has learned, which will prompt another cabinet shuffle in the coming weeks.
Four more federal cabinet ministers will not run in the next election, Global News has learned, which is expected to prompt another cabinet shuffle in the coming weeks.
The growing exodus is another challenge for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals after more than a year of slumping poll numbers and recent byelection losses in recent weeks, as well as reports of growing internal caucus discontent over the past week.
Filomena Tassi, who serves as minister of economic development for southern Ontario, and Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal both confirmed Thursday they have informed Trudeau of their decision not to run again.
Both ministers were first elected in 2015. Vandal was named northern affairs minister in 2019, while Tassi has served multiple cabinet roles since 2018, including as seniors minister and labour minister.
As well, a senior government source says National Revenue Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and Sports Minister Carla Qualtrough — both of whom have been in cabinet since the first Liberal government was elected in 2015 — are also not running for re-election.
Qualtrough had previously told Global News as recently as last week she planned to run again.
The source said all four calls were made “weeks ago” and that they were “planned and personal.”
“The situation is that it’s important that I’m closer to home, so that’s completely what this decision is rooted in,” Tassi told Global News in an interview.
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