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Harper's major cabinet shuffle

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Stephen Harper has appointed Stockwell Day, one of his most trusted lieutenants, to begin the purse-tightening in his deficit-swamped government and demoted minister Lisa Raitt following a string of gaffes.

In a bigger-than-advertised cabinet shuffle today, the Prime Minister elevated Mr. Day – a former Alberta finance minister –to head the Treasury Board and downgraded Ms. Raitt to the less-than-busy Labour portfolio.

Mr. Harper tapped Christian Paradis, a rising star in Conservative ranks, to replace Ms. Raitt as Natural Resources Minister.

Rona Ambrose also got a promotion and a second political life after she was dumped from the environment portfolio in 2007. She moves to the huge Public Works post, which controls government contracting.

In for a demotion along with Ms. Raitt is Peter Van Loan, whom colleagues said was less than able at managing the security agencies reporting to him while he served as Public Safety minister. He has been moved to the International Trade portfolio to replace Mr. Day.

Filling the boots at Public Safety is Manitoba MP Vic Toews, who previously served as Treasury Board president.

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PM taps Stockwell Day to tighten purse strings in tough times - The Globe and Mail
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They were saying that this was going to be a minor adjustment of Harper's cabinet...yeah not so much.
 
I can't believe that Stockwell Day is one of Harper's "most trusted lieutenants!" That guy is an idiot, he's a Creationist who believes humans walked with dinosaurs! Ugh, why does he have to be an MP from my province!?
 
I'd say this was a fairly minor shuffle in the grand scheme of things. The only major portfolio to switch hands today was Public Works. That being said they are right in that there were a lot more minor shuffles than originally advertised.

As to Stock, well what else can you say? However creationist beliefs aside I have heard that he is a very capable manager. Something the PM is going to need at Treas Board to reign in and control the spending.
 
Joe Blow said:
I'd say this was a fairly minor shuffle in the grand scheme of things. The only major portfolio to switch hands today was Public Works. That being said they are right in that there were a lot more minor shuffles than originally advertised.

As to Stock, well what else can you say? However creationist beliefs aside I have heard that he is a very capable manager. Something the PM is going to need at Treas Board to reign in and control the spending.
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Fair enough. If Stock is a capable manager, than he's a good guy to have on board I suppose. Harper is going to need all the capable people he's got in the top jobs if he's going to survive the next election.
 
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