Trudeau's new cabinet
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Summary
Justin Trudeau has a new cabinet, and it's not a good one, but it's better than the one he had before. But what does it mean for the future of the Liberal Party? And what will it look like in the new cabinet?
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There's been a cabinet shuffle. This is what I see as Justin Trudeau desperate, desperate.
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I mean, he's been over and over. The polls are showing they're slowly but surely declining.
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I mean, at best right now, if an election was held tomorrow, you'd have a conservative minority
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government, and I don't see who they could form an agreement with to last a long time.
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The NDP certainly wouldn't partner with them, but the liberals would not get the most seats
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in the House if another election was held. And that trend keeps going down and down and down.
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There's only two things a government can do in that case is change leaders or really shuffle
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the cabinet and hope you've refreshed things enough that people will look at you with a new eye
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and change things. I think it's too little too late. We'll see. But yeah, Mandicino's out to the
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Minister of Lies. I mean, that was a given. That guy's a clown. He probably even Trudeau realized
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he'd had to get rid of that guy months and months ago, but he had to wait for the opportunity the
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next shuffle. So he's finished. Al Heg, Omar Al Hebra, I'm so terrible with names, but he's out. He was
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in transportation, of course, the mess with the airlines, the strike on the dock. Carolyn Bennett,
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she's been there for over 25 years. And yeah, she's out. We're not talking about moving from spot to
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spot. They're out of cabinet altogether. So yeah, she's not going to run again. She was behind,
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you know, she was the health or addictions and mental health minister. So she was behind the big
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safe supply disaster that's unfolding in Vancouver right now as overdoses, you know, hit record numbers
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and addicts just buy the safer supply pills and sell them to other addicts. It's a failed policy.
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So Trudeau threw her out of cabinet, a few other lateral things and seven rookie cabinet ministers.
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We'll see. But what I see, and I think of the method and way that Pierre Polyev works is he's
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rubbing his hands together because he's going to have a cabinet full of rookies hitting. And part
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of the reason is because Justin wants to keep his balance of women in there. So he really has narrowed
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his pool on who he can pick for cabinet or not. Not to say there were no qualified women, but maybe not
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enough to make that 50-50 he wanted and so on. And Polyev is going to rip into those rookie cabinet
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ministers like they've never felt before when that next session hits and they better be well established
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because if that new cabinet can't fix things up, the liberals are going to continue to decline.