Trudeau to shuffle cabinet Friday after Freelands resignation: sources – National [Video]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet on Friday, just days after the shock resignation of Chrystia Freeland as finance minister, Global News has learned.

Trudeau will gather his new cabinet appointees at Rideau Hall Friday morning to be sworn into their new positions, two sources say.

Freeland’s resignation, which threw Trudeau’s government into chaos on Monday, came after a number of other cabinet ministers have either stepped down from their positions this year or announced they don’t plan to run in the next election.

Among the positions that are expected to be shifted to another Liberal MP is public safety minister, after Dominic LeBlanc was named by Trudeau to take on Freeland’s role as finance minister. He also holds the intergovernmental affairs portfolio and chairs the revived U.S.-Canada relations cabinet committee.

Sean Fraser, who announced he would be stepping downfrom cabinet moments before Freeland’s announcement, is also expected to be replaced as …