Trudeau expected to appoint O’Regan’s replacement as labour minister

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to name a replacement for outgoing labour curate Seamus O’Regan, whose resignation is effective Friday.

O’Regan announced Thursday he was stepping down from nan Liberal cabinet for family reasons, though he intends to proceed sitting arsenic an MP until nan adjacent national election.

Trudeau’s agency did not bespeak whether a caller furniture personnel would beryllium appointed aliases if different ministers would beryllium affected.

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A root pinch knowledge of nan matter, who would only speak nether information of anonymity, says a broader furniture shuffle is not expected to return place.

The Prime Minister’s Office antecedently confirmed that nan furniture would clasp a little gathering coming for nan first clip since nan Liberals’ astonishing nonaccomplishment successful a Toronto byelection past month.

O’Regan was appointed labour curate successful 2021 and became nan curate responsible for seniors past summer.