Trudeau cabinet shuffle: inauguration of eight new ministers

Trudeau  Cabinet Reshuffle: 8  New Ministers Sworn In
Ottawa MP David  McGuinty, brother of former Ontario  Premier Dalton  McGuinty, is the new  Minister of Public Safety, replacing Dominic LeBlanc, who was sworn in  as Finance Minister earlier this  week.
McGuinty is the chair of  Parliament's National Security and Intelligence  Committee.

Élisabeth Brière  has become the new  Minister of National Revenue, replacing Marie-Claude  Bibeau.
Terry Duguid replaces Carla Qualtrough as  Minister of Sports.
Toronto MP Nate Erskine-Smith, who has previously said he  will not  seek re-election, is the new  Minister of  Housing. He replaces Sean Fraser, the  former housing minister, who announced on Monday  that he was  leaving the cabinet for family  reasons.
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On Friday, Erskine-Smith said  "this was not an easy  decision", but after consulting with family and colleagues,  she plans to run in the next  election.
Darren Fisher is the new  Minister of  Veterans Affairs and  Associate Minister of  National Defence.
Ruby Sahota will  assume the dual role of  Minister of Democratic Institutions and  Minister responsible for the  Federal Economic Development Agency for  Southern Ontario.

The new  Minister of the Elderly is Joanne  Thompson. The email  address you need for the  latest news from Canada and around the  world. Rachel Bendayan  has been sworn in as  Minister of  Official Languages and Associate Minister of Public Safety.
Anita Anand, who will  retain her role as  Minister of Transport, will now also take on  the role of Minister of Internal Trade.
Gary Anandasangaree, who is  Minister of  Crown and Indigenous Relations, will  also take on  the role of  Minister of Northern Affairs and  Minister responsible for the Northern Economic Development  Agency of Canada.
Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon will now also  be given the portfolio of  Employment and  Workforce Development. Ginette Petitpas Taylor,  former Minister of Veterans Affairs, has been  named chair of the Treasury Board, a  position Anand  previously held.
Friday's cabinet  reshuffle comes after Chrystia Freeland, in a surprise announcement on Monday, resigned as finance minister on the same day she was  due to  deliver the fall economic  statement.

In her letter to Trudeau, Freeland noted that in recent  weeks she has found herself increasingly "at odds" with the prime  minister.
The newly sworn-in ministers have their work cut out ahead of the  arrival of the Trump administration. U.S.  President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose a  25% tariff on all Canadian  products unless Canada increases border  security. The ministers  presented a united front  on Friday, reiterating the need for a "Team Canada approach."
"I've been thinking a lot this  week about the events of the week and  I've spoken to the prime minister  on several occasions and I believe this is a  time when we need to stand  together," Anand told  reporters.
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"If we  don't all  pull together in the same direction, the results  won't be as strong as they otherwise  would be."
Anandasangaree said  there's "a lot of work to  be done" to ensure Canada is ready before Trump takes office.
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Petitpas Taylor added that "we have to make sure  we're putting our best foot  forward" by wanting to work  cooperatively with the new U.S.  administration.
As the new public safety minister, McGuinty said  it's his responsibility to work with the RCMP, the Canada Border Services Agency,  the Correctional  Service of Canada and the Canadian Security Intelligence  Service, as well as  his U.S.  counterparts, to address  Trump's concerns about the border. "I am  confident that working together with my colleagues here and  elsewhere, we will do this for Canadians.  It is too important not to  merge."
The House has  adjourned, but a cabinet meeting will  still be held on Friday  afternoon.
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Questions  are being asked about  Trudeau's future, with  his popularity  falling in  the polls and growing calls from  members of his own party and the opposition  for him to  resign.
Bendyan told reporters on Friday that Trudeau  was considering his options.
"Politics is  a matter of choice. "Very often, these are  tough choices. I think the prime minister  has been very clear that he has  an election in mind," he said.
Sahota said Trudeau  had "our full  support."
"He certainly showed a lot of confidence in us and that's why we're here today,"  he said.
According to an Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News and released this week, Trudeau's personal popularity has  fallen by five percentage points, with  just 23  percent overall saying they think he deserves  re-election and 77  percent saying they think it's time for a new party to take  over.
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Meanwhile, support  for the Liberals has also  fallen by five points, to 21  percent, since September and is now tied with the New Democratic  Party. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said Friday that his party  would present a  "clear motion of  no confidence" in the  upcoming session of the House of Commons that could  oust the Liberal government.