The federal Liberals are reshuffling their cabinet on Monday.

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香蕉视频直播� The existing department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs is being replaced by two new departments: former Indigenous minister Carolyn Bennett becomes minister of Crown-Indigenous relations and northern affairs, while Jane Philpott leaves Health to become minister of Indigenous services.

香蕉视频直播� Kent Hehr leaves Veterans Affairs to become minister of sport and persons with disabilities.

香蕉视频直播� Carla Qualtrough vacates Sport and Persons with Disabilities to take over from the retiring Judy Foote as minister of public services and procurement.

香蕉视频直播� Ginette Petitpas Taylor, formerly parliamentary secretary to the minister of finance, becomes health minister.

香蕉视频直播� Newfoundland and Labrador MP Seamus O香蕉视频直播橰egan joins cabinet as veterans affairs minister.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made former TV host Seamus O香蕉视频直播橰egan his new veterans affairs minister Monday in a mid-mandate shakeup that puts cabinet stalwart Jane Philpott at the heart of a retooled Indigenous Affairs department.

Philpott is taking on a new Indigenous Services portfolio to work alongside Carolyn Bennett, whose new title 香蕉视频直播� minister of Crown-Indigenous relations and northern affairs 香蕉视频直播� signals a sharper focus on reconciliation with Aboriginal Peoples.

Ginette Petitpas Taylor becomes the new health minister, while Carla Qualtrough becomes minister of public works and procurement, replacing Newfoundland and Labrador MP Judy Foote, whose resignation prompted Monday香蕉视频直播檚 shuffle.

It香蕉视频直播檚 widely seen as one of the toughest portfolios in cabinet, responsible for handling the federal government香蕉视频直播檚 troubled Phoenix pay system as well as handling defence procurement challenges.

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Foote, who had been on leave from her cabinet portfolio, said last week that she was resigning her House of Commons seat for family health reasons. O香蕉视频直播橰egan香蕉视频直播檚 promotion ensures a continued seat at the cabinet table for Newfoundland and Labrador.

With Trudeau having made gender parity in cabinet a big part of his government香蕉视频直播檚 identity, he also needed to add a promising female backbencher to the cabinet table to restore the balance upset by Foote香蕉视频直播檚 departure.

That turned out to be Ginette Petitpas Taylor, whose promotion to the Health portfolio indicates a strong degree of confidence in the rookie New Brunswick MP.

The opposite could perhaps be said about Kent Hehr, who was shuffled out of Veterans Affairs to take over for Qualtrough in the Sport and Persons with Disabilities portfolio.

The Liberals were elected two years ago on a promise to address many of the complaints veterans had raised about their treatment under the Conservative government.

The biggest promise was to re-introduce lifelong disability pensions, which had been eliminated in favour of a lump-sum payments and a new system of benefits for injured ex-soldiers in 2006.

But the Liberals have since waffled on that promise, and Hehr香蕉视频直播檚 folksy style and vague promises had failed to quell growing complaints that the government was breaking its key promises to veterans.

In terms of cabinet newcomers, the 46-year-old O香蕉视频直播橰egan, a former CTV television personality, was a marquee choice. He was first elected in 2015 and is a close personal friend of the prime minister.

O香蕉视频直播橰egan and his partner were among the friends who accompanied Trudeau on a controversial family vacation last Christmas to a private island in the Bahamas owned by the Aga Khan, a billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader of the world香蕉视频直播檚 Ismaili Muslims.

The previous Christmas, O香蕉视频直播橰egan spent the holidays in a 香蕉视频直播渨ellness centre香蕉视频直播� where he received treatment for alcoholism. He has openly discussed his struggles with alcoholism and mental illness.

O香蕉视频直播橰egan worked in politics as a ministerial assistant both federally and provincially before joining CTV香蕉视频直播檚 Canada AM in 2001.