CBC’s Shawn Jeffords has the highlights on Ford’s cabinet shuffle — and what it signals about the direction of the Ontario government amid the U.S.-Canada trade war.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has named a new cabinet with many familiar faces, though he has shuffled his housing, education and environment ministers.
Paul Calandra moves from housing to become the education minister, taking over from Jill Dunlop who moves to emergency preparedness.
Former minister of agriculture Rob Flack is being appointed minister of housing. Trevor Jones, formerly associate minister of emergency preparedness and response, takes over as agriculture minister.
Todd McCarthy is taking on the role of environment minister, a higher-profile role than his previous job as minister of public and business service delivery.
Ford also moved former environment minister Andrea Khanjin to red tape reduction. Graham McGregor is taking on the role of minister of citizenship and multiculturalism, a post previously …