http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-cabinet-confirmation-hearings-senate-begin-1.3928129
Andy Doung
A friend of mine said to me
this morning over coffee “ Andy, Canada is extremely lucky to have an
adult and leader as our PM, yes he has made a few minor mistakes, but
who does not when they first take on a new job. He is respected
internationally and for the most part here at home, he is not prone to
Twitter outbursts, he does not go off the deep end when he is
criticized, he does not ridicule anyone, he tries to work with everyone,
he is respectful of everyone, he is intelligent, things are not done
through the side door, MP’s are allowed to speak for themselves,
policies are not buried in huge omnibus bills, He and is MP’s do not
avoid the media, he is ready and up to the difficult task of dealing
whatever comes Canada’s way . Given the alternatives we made the correct
choice electing an adult and real leader. He will be around as PM for
many years yet, the alternatives are too scary to consider, just look
south .”
David Raymond Amos
@Andy Doung Trust that the office of Mr Prime Minister Trudeau "The Younger" and his many minions have been well informed since 2003 about what I know about many evil Yankees.
The two Alabama Senators are fine examples. Trust that Senator Jeff Sessions Mr Trump's Wannabe Attorney General and Senator Richard Shelby know why Landslide Annie McLellan admitted my contact with Wayne Easter after he met with Attorney General Ashcroft on November 19th, 2003
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/three-new-faces-trudeau-cabinet-1.3928984
2 hours ago
22 minutes ago
10 minutes ago
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-government-cabinet-shuffle-2017-1.3928723
@Andy Doung Trust that the office of Mr Prime Minister Trudeau "The Younger" and his many minions have been well informed since 2003 about what I know about many evil Yankees.
The two Alabama Senators are fine examples. Trust that Senator Jeff Sessions Mr Trump's Wannabe Attorney General and Senator Richard Shelby know why Landslide Annie McLellan admitted my contact with Wayne Easter after he met with Attorney General Ashcroft on November 19th, 2003
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/three-new-faces-trudeau-cabinet-1.3928984
Steve Wilson
In no other business, trade,
career, occupation does somebody march in off the street as a "new hire"
and immediately get promoted into an executive office position. Could
somebody please explain to boy-PM that skill and wisdom doesn't come
from a family name but is earned over time with hard work and
experience. This is what happens when too many young Canadians lift
their heads from their iPhones just long enough to cast a ballot.
Marty Lee
@James Rockford - ( Spaceman )
Another typical Liberal false statement if there ever was one.
Another typical Liberal false statement if there ever was one.
Content disabled.
David Raymond Amos
@Steve Wilson What I see is two more young Liebrano lawyers to stress test with legal documents and arguments
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-government-cabinet-shuffle-2017-1.3928723
Terry Schein
How appropriate that McCallum is leaving the country after all the damage he has done to it
Richard Wakefield
Rats leaving the ship I see. Doesnt matter what Trudeau does, Trump is going to eat him for a snack.
David Raymond Amos
Perhaps Stéphane Dion and John McCallum should review my lawsuit in the Federal Court of Canada ASAP EH?
David Raymond Amos
Methinks that Mr Trump and
his many lawyers should be concerned that CBC allowed my latest comment
to be posted N'esy Pas Hubby Lacoix and Minister Joly?
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Trump's cabinet braces for confirmation 'murder boards'
Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, retired marine general John Kelly among 1st nominees to testify
By Matt Kwong, CBC News Posted: Jan 10, 2017 5:00 AM ET
Retired U.S. Marine general John F. Kelly is among the
first cabinet nominees set to testify beginning Tuesday. (Rhona
Wise/Reuters)
The first cascade of confirmation hearings to staff Donald Trump's
new administration starts today, as Republicans fend off accusations
they're trying to "jam through" the vetting before required screening.
At least eight hearings are scheduled this week for the president-elect's cabinet picks to face tough Senate panels known as "murder boards," a term that originated in the U.S. military. Four are slated for Wednesday alone, the same day as a vote on a Republican budget measure that would repeal key tenets of the Affordable Care Act.
It's also the same day Trump has scheduled his first press conference in about 170 days. Democrats denounced the packed hearings lineup as a calculated push to bury potentially bad press in a news avalanche before Trump takes the oath of office.
The timetable angered Senate minority leader Charles Schumer, who
admonished Republican senators for trying to send the confirmations
through in an "unprecedented" rush, ignoring concerns raised by the
Office of Government Ethics about incomplete ethics and background
checks.
"Senate Republicans should heed the advice of this independent office and stop trying to jam through unvetted nominees," Schumer wrote in a letter.
The schedule (subject to change) this week includes:
Tuesday's hearings will open with testimony from Sessions, an Alabama senator liked by his peers across political aisles. But Sessions is burdened by allegations of racist comments raised 31 years ago, when he was deemed unfit for a federal judgeship.
Testimonies that led to the rejection of his nomination allege that Sessions described a white civil-rights attorney as a traitor to his race for defending a black client, joked about supporting the KKK, used the N-word, and called a black assistant U.S. Attorney "boy" on multiple occasions.
Sessions said those hearings distorted views of his character, and were inaccurate.
Hogan Gidley, an adviser to former Republican governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee, expects "leniency" for Sessions from Senate colleagues, as "one of their own."
"But I do think there will be plenty of attempts to paint him wrongly
as some type of racist," says Gidley, who supported Trump in the
election.
The South Carolina-based conservative strategist believes the ultimate play is to discredit Trump. "They'll use this stage of televised confirmation hearings to throw temper tantrums and embarrass the nominees and, by extension, embarrass the person who nominated them."
Tuesday will also include testimony from Kelly, the retired marine general vying for the Homeland Security post. He will likely be asked to defend his opposition to closing Guantanamo Bay as well as the detention centre's reputation for its treatment of detainees. Kelly can expect to be questioned on his approach to combating terrorism and ISIS.
Meanwhile, Democrats are demanding a delay in the proceedings, reasoning that the usual ethics and background disclosures have yet to be obtained for all nominees before the hearings.
They could try to stall hearings by extending the meetings, calling
for additional review time to scrutinize nominees' financial records and
pushing a final vote back by a week, says Jim Manley, who
advised former Democratic Senate minority leader Harry Reid.
(Wednesday's planned confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos for Secretary
of Education has been postponed until next week, for instance, as
Democrats sought more time to review financial holdings and potential
conflicts of interest.)
The tactics will likely only delay the inevitable. Trump's picks will likely be confirmed.
"There's been an idea on Capitol Hill that presidents, at the end of the day, deserve to have their cabinet nominees in place, absent some serious allegation," Manley says.
Bad blood may still linger following U.S. President Barack Obama's election win in 2008, when Senate Republicans didn't extend that same courtesy to Obama for executive and judicial branch nominees.
In a tongue-in-cheek tweet Monday, Schumer referenced a 2009 letter from the Republican leadership appealing to the Democrats to provide the standard background checks for Obama's nominees.
Schumer, requesting the same treatment now from the Republicans, appended that original letter, addressing it instead to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell from the Office of the Democratic leader.
"Senate Republicans abused the process" by refusing those picks, Manley says. Fed up by the obstruction,
Democrats voted in 2011 to weaken the filibuster rules so that only a simple majority of 51 — rather than the 60 needed in a supermajority — was sufficient for confirmations.
Now that the Republicans have a 52-seat majority in the Senate, that procedural change could shift advantage to the other side of the aisle.
Democrats and skeptical Republicans are expected to confront Trump's picks on issues like their apparent coziness with Russian officials (for Tillerson); unsettled payment of millions in overdue election fines (for DeVos); plans to replace Obamacare (for Tom Price); and profiting from the 2008 housing collapse (for Steve Mnuchin, the former Goldman Sachs executive tapped for Treasury Secretary).
Besides scrutinizing the nominees' backgrounds, Democrats will use the occasion to focus on the judgment of the incoming commander-in-chief, grilling his would-be staff on whether they agree with Trump's most radical ideas.
"This is not only going to be about holding their feet to the fire and discussing the agencies they've been nominated for," says Manley. "They're going to want to poke around and see where, and whether, they differ from Donald Trump himself."
The president-elect has been "all over the map" with his political
views, Manley says. The hearings should give Senate Democrats a chance
"to get clarity on where this administration intends to go on hot-button
issues, including immigration and health care reform."
Trump's transition team has reportedly set up mock hearings in a federal building in Washington to prep his nominees.
Savvy nominees will avoid making "thoughtless statements or unauthorized policy statements," says Gary Nordlinger, a politics professor at George Washington University.
And if someone feels tempted to bloviate on a controversial topic? Robert Reich, the former labour secretary in the Bill Clinton administration, offers wisdom in a blog: Just resist.
"Say instead: 'I look forward to working with you on that, Senator.'"
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At least eight hearings are scheduled this week for the president-elect's cabinet picks to face tough Senate panels known as "murder boards," a term that originated in the U.S. military. Four are slated for Wednesday alone, the same day as a vote on a Republican budget measure that would repeal key tenets of the Affordable Care Act.
It's also the same day Trump has scheduled his first press conference in about 170 days. Democrats denounced the packed hearings lineup as a calculated push to bury potentially bad press in a news avalanche before Trump takes the oath of office.
Attorney General-designate Senator Jeff
Sessions cheers on the crowd during a Donald Trump rally, Dec. 17, 2016,
in Mobile, Alabama. Sessions is known for hardline anti-illegal
immigration positions in Congress. (Brynn Anderson/Associated Press)
"Senate Republicans should heed the advice of this independent office and stop trying to jam through unvetted nominees," Schumer wrote in a letter.
The schedule (subject to change) this week includes:
- Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, Attorney General
- John F. Kelly, Secretary of Homeland Security
- Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State
- Mike Pompeo, CIA director
- Elaine Chao, Transportation Secretary
- Wilbur Ross, Commerce Secretary
- James Mattis, Defence Secretary
- Ben Carson, Housing and Urban Development Secretary
Protesters in KKK garb cause ruckus at U.S. Senate hearings0:36
Expect 'temper tantrums'
Tuesday's hearings will open with testimony from Sessions, an Alabama senator liked by his peers across political aisles. But Sessions is burdened by allegations of racist comments raised 31 years ago, when he was deemed unfit for a federal judgeship.
Testimonies that led to the rejection of his nomination allege that Sessions described a white civil-rights attorney as a traitor to his race for defending a black client, joked about supporting the KKK, used the N-word, and called a black assistant U.S. Attorney "boy" on multiple occasions.
Sessions said those hearings distorted views of his character, and were inaccurate.
Hogan Gidley, an adviser to former Republican governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee, expects "leniency" for Sessions from Senate colleagues, as "one of their own."
Former Goldman Sachs executive Steve Mnuchin
is president-elect Donald Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary. (Evan
Vucci/Associated Press)
The South Carolina-based conservative strategist believes the ultimate play is to discredit Trump. "They'll use this stage of televised confirmation hearings to throw temper tantrums and embarrass the nominees and, by extension, embarrass the person who nominated them."
Tuesday will also include testimony from Kelly, the retired marine general vying for the Homeland Security post. He will likely be asked to defend his opposition to closing Guantanamo Bay as well as the detention centre's reputation for its treatment of detainees. Kelly can expect to be questioned on his approach to combating terrorism and ISIS.
Democrats demand delay
Meanwhile, Democrats are demanding a delay in the proceedings, reasoning that the usual ethics and background disclosures have yet to be obtained for all nominees before the hearings.
Former Labour Secretary Elaine Chao met with
the president-elect at Trump Tower in New York on Nov. 21, 2016.
(Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press)
The tactics will likely only delay the inevitable. Trump's picks will likely be confirmed.
"There's been an idea on Capitol Hill that presidents, at the end of the day, deserve to have their cabinet nominees in place, absent some serious allegation," Manley says.
Bad blood may still linger following U.S. President Barack Obama's election win in 2008, when Senate Republicans didn't extend that same courtesy to Obama for executive and judicial branch nominees.
In a tongue-in-cheek tweet Monday, Schumer referenced a 2009 letter from the Republican leadership appealing to the Democrats to provide the standard background checks for Obama's nominees.
Schumer, requesting the same treatment now from the Republicans, appended that original letter, addressing it instead to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell from the Office of the Democratic leader.
"Senate Republicans abused the process" by refusing those picks, Manley says. Fed up by the obstruction,
Democrats voted in 2011 to weaken the filibuster rules so that only a simple majority of 51 — rather than the 60 needed in a supermajority — was sufficient for confirmations.
Now that the Republicans have a 52-seat majority in the Senate, that procedural change could shift advantage to the other side of the aisle.
Democrats and skeptical Republicans are expected to confront Trump's picks on issues like their apparent coziness with Russian officials (for Tillerson); unsettled payment of millions in overdue election fines (for DeVos); plans to replace Obamacare (for Tom Price); and profiting from the 2008 housing collapse (for Steve Mnuchin, the former Goldman Sachs executive tapped for Treasury Secretary).
Hearings a chance to 'get clarity'
Besides scrutinizing the nominees' backgrounds, Democrats will use the occasion to focus on the judgment of the incoming commander-in-chief, grilling his would-be staff on whether they agree with Trump's most radical ideas.
"This is not only going to be about holding their feet to the fire and discussing the agencies they've been nominated for," says Manley. "They're going to want to poke around and see where, and whether, they differ from Donald Trump himself."
Some of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's
cabinet nominees. Top, left to right: Wilbur Ross for Commerce
Secretary; Jeff Sessions for Attorney General; James Mattis for Defence
Secretary; Rick Perry for Energy Secretary; Scott Pruitt for
Environmental Protection Agency administrator. Bottom, left to right:
John F. Kelly for Department of Homeland Security Secretary; Tom Price
for Health and Human Services Secretary; Betsy DeVos for Education
Secretary; Ben Carson for Housing and Urban Development Secretary; Ryan
Zinke for Interior Secretary. (Reuters)
Trump's transition team has reportedly set up mock hearings in a federal building in Washington to prep his nominees.
Savvy nominees will avoid making "thoughtless statements or unauthorized policy statements," says Gary Nordlinger, a politics professor at George Washington University.
And if someone feels tempted to bloviate on a controversial topic? Robert Reich, the former labour secretary in the Bill Clinton administration, offers wisdom in a blog: Just resist.
"Say instead: 'I look forward to working with you on that, Senator.'"
To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.
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Andy Doung
A friend of mine said to me
this morning over coffee “ Andy, Canada is extremely lucky to have an
adult and leader as our PM, yes he has made a few minor mistakes, but
who does not when they first take on a new job. He is respected
internationally and for the most part here at home, he is not prone to
Twitter outbursts, he does not go off the deep end when he is
criticized, he does not ridicule anyone, he tries to work with everyone,
he is respectful of everyone, he is intelligent, things are not done
through the side door, MP’s are allowed to speak for themselves,
policies are not buried in huge omnibus bills, He and is MP’s do not
avoid the media, he is ready and up to the difficult task of dealing
whatever comes Canada’s way . Given the alternatives we made the correct
choice electing an adult and real leader. He will be around as PM for
many years yet, the alternatives are too scary to consider, just look
south .”
11 hours ago
11 hours ago
David Raymond Amos
@Andy Doung Trust that the
office of Mr Prime Minister Trudeau "The Younger" and his many minions
have been well informed since 2003 about what I know about many evil
Yankees.
The two Alabama Senators are fine examples. Trust that Senator Jeff Sessions Mr Trump's Wannabe Attorney General and Senator Richard Shelby know why Landslide Annie McLellan admitted my contact with Wayne Easter after he met with Attorney General Ashcroft on November 19th, 2003
6 hours ago
The two Alabama Senators are fine examples. Trust that Senator Jeff Sessions Mr Trump's Wannabe Attorney General and Senator Richard Shelby know why Landslide Annie McLellan admitted my contact with Wayne Easter after he met with Attorney General Ashcroft on November 19th, 2003
6 hours ago
Sam Mehr
@Andy Doung "He and his MPs do not avoid the media"
LOL, that reminded me of Stephen Harper who locked himself in the washroom to avoid media (or to protest Brazilian president)..!
6 hours ago
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/three-new-faces-trudeau-cabinet-1.3928984
LOL, that reminded me of Stephen Harper who locked himself in the washroom to avoid media (or to protest Brazilian president)..!
6 hours ago
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/three-new-faces-trudeau-cabinet-1.3928984
The 3 new faces of Justin Trudeau's Liberal cabinet
François-Philippe Champagne, Ahmed Hussen and Karina Gould to join federal cabinet
By John Paul Tasker, CBC News Posted: Jan 10, 2017 3:01 PM ET
Quebec MP François-Philippe Champagne will serve as
minister of international trade, left, Canada's new immigration
minister, Ontario MP Ahmed Hussen, centre, and minister of democratic
institutions, Ontario MP Karina Gould, right, will join Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau's cabinet. (CBC News/Canadian Press)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made major changes to his ministerial
contingent Tuesday, elevating three rookie MPs to the cabinet table.
The new privy councillors include Canada's first Somali-Canadian MP, the youngest female cabinet minister in the country's history and a rising star from former prime minister Jean Chrétien's hometown.
Long-time Liberal MP John McCallum is leaving federal politics for Beijing, where he will become Canada's ambassador to China, and he will cede his immigration post to Ahmed Hussen, the first black Canadian to serve in Trudeau's cabinet.
The Somali-born Hussen came to Canada as a refugee at the tender age of 16 after fleeing his war-ravaged native land.
After arriving from Mogadishu, he became a track and field star at his Hamilton high school before moving to Toronto to live with an older brother in the city's Regent Park public housing development. He worked at a gas station in Mississauga, an hour commute from his home, to scrape together enough money for tuition at York University.
Along the way, he volunteered with Ontario Liberal Party and was brought into former premier Dalton McGuinty's office after the 2003 election campaign ended Tory rule in the province. It was there that he first crossed paths with the likes of Gerald Butts and Katie Telford, now Trudeau's top lieutenants who also worked at Queen's Park.
Hussen, 39, became an advocate for his impoverished community inside
the premier's office and helped secure millions in funding to revitalize
his dilapidated housing project. Later, he left to become president of
the Canadian Somali Congress.
His victory in York South–Weston was a source of pride for many of his fellow Somalis — who form a sizable voting block in the north Toronto riding — but Hussen has insisted he does not want to be seen as a token MP.
"I'm Canadian" Hussen told CBC News after his election.
"Somali is my heritage, and I'm proud of my heritage, but I have a lot to contribute to Canada, and I'm a mainstream guy, I'm not limited by my community. Everyone has a heritage, but we have a shared citizenship."
Gould's appointment as minister of democratic institutions will lower the average age of cabinet ministers considerably. She is replacing another young privy councilor, Maryam Monsef, who will be shuffled to the status of women portfolio.
Gould, 29, is the youngest female cabinet minister in Canadian history.
The Burlington, Ont., MP is an Oxford University graduate and a trade and investment specialist who worked for the Mexican Trade Commission before her foray into federal politics.
She volunteered at a Mexican orphanage while a student at McGill
University, and later worked as a consultant to the migrant and
development program at the Organization of American States in
Washington, D.C., experience that made her a natural fit for the role of
parliamentary secretary to the minister of international development,
Marie-Claude Bibeau.
Gould has had an interest in federal politics since a young age. She has pinpointed a visit by former Liberal MP for Burlington, Paddy Torsney, to her high school civics class, as an early inspiration to run for elected office.
"I was so impressed with her," Gould told the Bay Observer, the local Burlington newspaper, after her election. "It really inspired me to think it was a real possibility for me as a woman to become an MP."
Both of her paternal grandparents are Holocaust survivors.
François-Philippe Champagne has been a strong lieutenant of Finance Minister Bill Morneau over the past year, and will now take a seat at the cabinet table as the minister of international trade.
Champagne takes over the hot file as support for global trade wanes in much of the Western world amid an ascendency of protectionist rhetoric.
Champagne has one notable supporter in his corner: former prime minister Jean Chrétien. Both Champagne and Chrétien hail from Shawinigan, in rural Mauricie area of Quebec, and the Liberal lion encouraged the lawyer turned international businessman to run in the last election.
"He worked in Europe, around the world," Chrétien recently said in French in an interview with Quebec paper Le Nouvelliste, which recently named Champagne "person of the year."
"He came to see me, he explained to me that one day he would like to practice politics," Chrétien said.
"I encouraged him. I gave him my advice. He worked very hard, returned to his home, prepared himself and was elected. He does very well in Ottawa; everyone says it. I am very proud of him. He understands that it is not easy and that you have to work."
Champagne, 46, worked abroad in the field of green technology and as a vice-president and senior counsel at ABB Group, a multinational Swiss conglomerate.
He was awarded the Young Global Leader award at 2009 World Economic Forum.
The new privy councillors include Canada's first Somali-Canadian MP, the youngest female cabinet minister in the country's history and a rising star from former prime minister Jean Chrétien's hometown.
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Ahmed Hussen
Long-time Liberal MP John McCallum is leaving federal politics for Beijing, where he will become Canada's ambassador to China, and he will cede his immigration post to Ahmed Hussen, the first black Canadian to serve in Trudeau's cabinet.
The Somali-born Hussen came to Canada as a refugee at the tender age of 16 after fleeing his war-ravaged native land.
After arriving from Mogadishu, he became a track and field star at his Hamilton high school before moving to Toronto to live with an older brother in the city's Regent Park public housing development. He worked at a gas station in Mississauga, an hour commute from his home, to scrape together enough money for tuition at York University.
Along the way, he volunteered with Ontario Liberal Party and was brought into former premier Dalton McGuinty's office after the 2003 election campaign ended Tory rule in the province. It was there that he first crossed paths with the likes of Gerald Butts and Katie Telford, now Trudeau's top lieutenants who also worked at Queen's Park.
Ahmed Hussen talks with Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau after being sworn in as Minister of Immigration, Refugees and
Citizenship during a cabinet shuffle at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on
Tuesday, Jan 10, 2017. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
His victory in York South–Weston was a source of pride for many of his fellow Somalis — who form a sizable voting block in the north Toronto riding — but Hussen has insisted he does not want to be seen as a token MP.
"I'm Canadian" Hussen told CBC News after his election.
"Somali is my heritage, and I'm proud of my heritage, but I have a lot to contribute to Canada, and I'm a mainstream guy, I'm not limited by my community. Everyone has a heritage, but we have a shared citizenship."
Karina Gould
Gould's appointment as minister of democratic institutions will lower the average age of cabinet ministers considerably. She is replacing another young privy councilor, Maryam Monsef, who will be shuffled to the status of women portfolio.
Gould, 29, is the youngest female cabinet minister in Canadian history.
The Burlington, Ont., MP is an Oxford University graduate and a trade and investment specialist who worked for the Mexican Trade Commission before her foray into federal politics.
Karina Gould poses with Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau (right) and Gov.-Gen. David Johnston after being sworn in as
Minister of Democratic Institutions during a cabinet shuffle at Rideau
Hall in Ottawa. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
Gould has had an interest in federal politics since a young age. She has pinpointed a visit by former Liberal MP for Burlington, Paddy Torsney, to her high school civics class, as an early inspiration to run for elected office.
"I was so impressed with her," Gould told the Bay Observer, the local Burlington newspaper, after her election. "It really inspired me to think it was a real possibility for me as a woman to become an MP."
Both of her paternal grandparents are Holocaust survivors.
François-Philippe Champagne
François-Philippe Champagne has been a strong lieutenant of Finance Minister Bill Morneau over the past year, and will now take a seat at the cabinet table as the minister of international trade.
Champagne takes over the hot file as support for global trade wanes in much of the Western world amid an ascendency of protectionist rhetoric.
Champagne has one notable supporter in his corner: former prime minister Jean Chrétien. Both Champagne and Chrétien hail from Shawinigan, in rural Mauricie area of Quebec, and the Liberal lion encouraged the lawyer turned international businessman to run in the last election.
François-Philippe Champagne is sworn in as
Minister of International Trade during a cabinet shuffle at Rideau Hall
in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
"He came to see me, he explained to me that one day he would like to practice politics," Chrétien said.
"I encouraged him. I gave him my advice. He worked very hard, returned to his home, prepared himself and was elected. He does very well in Ottawa; everyone says it. I am very proud of him. He understands that it is not easy and that you have to work."
Champagne, 46, worked abroad in the field of green technology and as a vice-president and senior counsel at ABB Group, a multinational Swiss conglomerate.
He was awarded the Young Global Leader award at 2009 World Economic Forum.
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Trudeau shuffles cabinet2:35
Chrystia Freeland becomes foreign minister as Trudeau shuffles cabinet
Justin Trudeau rearranges key cabinet ministers days before Donald Trump installed as U.S. President
CBC News Posted: Jan 10, 2017 8:41 AM ET
Chrystia Freeland will be named Minister of Foreign
Affairs in a cabinet shuffle to take place today. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)
Chrystia Freeland will be appointed Canada's new foreign affairs minister in a sweeping Liberal cabinet shakeup to be announced later today, CBC News has learned.
Freeland will replace Stéphane Dion, who is leaving politics to take a diplomatic post.
John McCallum also is leaving politics, and will be named Canada's ambassador to China.
Other changes to be announced today, confirmed by CBC News:
- François-Philippe Champagne will become minister of International Trade
- Patty Hajdu will move from Status of Women to Labour
- Maryam Monsef will transfer from Democratic Institutions to Status of Women
- Karina Gould will be named minister of Democratic Institutions
- Ahmed Hussen become minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
MaryAnn Mihychuk, Maryam Monsef and Stéphane
Dion are all being moved out of their current portfolios in Tuesday's
cabinet shuffle, sources tell CBC News. (Canadian Press)
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Richard Wakefield
Rats leaving the ship I see. Doesnt matter what Trudeau does, Trump is going to eat him for a snack.
Anthony Laface
The new protocol for all
Canadian foreign missions anticipating a visit by our new foreign
affairs minister will be to have plenty of tissues on hand.
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David Raymond Amos
Perhaps Stéphane Dion and John McCallum should review my lawsuit in the Federal Court of Canada ASAP EH?
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