Shuffle shenanigans a time-honoured Ottawa spectator sport

The winners and losers of the most-recent cabinet shuffle, while fun to talk about, won’t be a factor in whether the Liberals come out on top in the October election.
Liberals with new job titles after the Jan. 14 cabinet shuffle are, from left, Justice Minister David Lametti, Rural Economic Development Minister Bernadette Jordan, Veterans Affairs Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, Treasury Board President Jane Philpott, and Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O’Regan.
OTTAWA—It wasn’t just the National Football League playoffs that were generating all the excitement this past weekend. The great fantasy sport of cabinet-making was in full motion, precipitated by Scott Brison’s somewhat surprising resignation the week before that kicked off Ottawa’s favouri...

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