PM Fires Or Demotes Rivals

Prime Minister Mark Carney fired or demoted two cabinet members who opposed him for the Liberal leadership. Carney praised former Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland as an “exceptional minister, exceptional public servant” but demoted her to Minister of Transport, the 11th position in cabinet’s order of precedence: “We have new ministers with new ideas.”

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