In addition to her new responsibilities, Anand will keep her current role as Treasury Board president
Treasury Board President Anita Anand is expected to take on the responsibilities of transport minister in a cabinet shuffle today, according to a source who spoke to the Ottawa Citizen on the condition of anonymity.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to shuffle his cabinet today, after Pablo Rodriguez, the transport minister and Liberal Quebec lieutenant, announced he was quitting to enter the race to become the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party.
In addition to her new responsibilities, Anand will keep her current role, said the source. The news of the shuffle, the source said, will be shared on Thursday afternoon.
Procurement Minister Jean Yves Duclos will take over as the Liberals’ Quebec lieutenant.
Rodriguez has said he will sit as an independent member of Parliament, representing Honoré-Mercier, until the launch of the leadership campaign next January “to avoid a costly byelection a few weeks or months before a general election.”
Rodriguez said the official launch of his campaign will take place “in the coming weeks.” First elected in 2004, Rodriguez has served as minister of Canadian heritage and as Leader of the Government in the House of Commons.