Sean Fraser to leave federal cabinet as PMO pushes to add Mark Carney [Video]

Housing Minister Sean Fraser will announce on Monday that he will not seek re-election in his Nova Scotia riding and will leave the federal cabinet during the next shuffle, CBC News has learned.

Sources say that cabinet shuffle could happen as soon as Wednesday.

The push to change Justin Trudeau’s inner circle before the Christmas holidays comes as the prime minister and his senior advisers mount yet another effort to convince former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney to join the cabinet, according to multiple high-level Liberal sources.

The ongoing attempts to convince Carney to join cabinet were first reported by the Globe and Mail. Liberal sources tell CBC News that Carney has been more open to the idea than in the past, but it is still not a done deal. 

But as they try to add Carney, the Prime Minister’s Office is also preparing to lose Fraser — widely …