In tweaking front bench, Trudeau signals shift inward to focus on fraught domestic relations: experts

'There’s a real focus on listening to regional voices and strategizing around how best to thread together a narrative that really encompasses a national vision once again,' says Liberal strategist John Delacourt.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on Nov. 20 at Rideau Hall following the cabinet shuffle, has signalled that in the upcoming parliamentary session he will be focused on closing 'hot or open files,' according to political experts.
With a diminished caucus heading into a minority Parliament, the Trudeau government has signalled through tweaks to its front bench that it is scaling back its ambitions, as it shifts its focus to attending to fraught domestic relations, say political experts. 

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