MPs Bendayan, Duguid, Fisher to join Trudeau cabinet in shuffle Friday [Video]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to add multiple new names to his cabinet Friday when he shuffles his team days after Chrystia Freeland rattled the party and the government with her sudden resignation as finance minister.

The Canadian Press has confirmed from a source with knowledge of the appointments that Montreal MP Rachel Bendayan, Winnipeg MP Terry Duguid, Toronto MP Nate Erskine-Smith, Ottawa MP David McGuinty, and Nova Scotia MP Darren Fisher will all be named to cabinet in a ceremony at Rideau Hall Friday morning.

This comes at the end of a tumultuous week that erupted Monday morning when Freeland submitted her resignation to Trudeau, launching an avalanche of anger toward the prime minister from within his own caucus.

Before that event, Trudeau had already been preparing a cabinet shuffle to replace five ministers who had told him they won’t be running in the next election.

The five …