Cabinet reshuffle

And number five, Toronto mayoral candidate Chris Alexander insists he has no intention of dropping out of the race.

All right, I get it.

Cabinet shuffles are for wonks.

But it is notable to see what Doug Ford has done in order to shore up his bench strength.

Most significant, perhaps, is that David Piccini, who has been much embattled, although that whole controversy seems to have kind of tamped down.

Okay, so other news.

Doug Ford rejigging his cabinet.

Is there anything to tease out of this? Or, you know, cabinet shuffles are fairly uninspiring affairs.

Chatham-Kent-Leamington MPP Trevor Jones has a new cabinet job.

In a cabinet shuffle, Premier Doug Ford has named Jones the new Minister of Labor after David Piccini was placed under investigation for alleged mishandling of public funds.

Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhof will take over Jones' old portfolio in agriculture, food, and rural affairs.

The European Union has expressed a willingness to increase trade with Canada during its trade tiff with the U.S. Thursday's Question of the Day wants to know if you think deeper economic and defense ties with Europe would be good for Canada.

Because they got like, I believe, 20% or maybe a bit more in the whole thing, which is pretty good for like a left city, which is Manchester is left wing.

you know yeah yeah but you know you never know what they could have done if Nigel Farage didn't go on his you know paddy and now we see the consequences of his actions in full but that's also gone off the horse from the conservative cabinet reshuffle but we're going to move on to the fifth issue Iran just

a little check on Iran yeah of course yeah always going to check up on them yeah always going to check up on Iran at this point you know yeah

I mean, what are the updates now? Iran have basically, after the ceasefire that was never really a ceasefire, which would never really have lasted if they've basically gone and attacked each other again.

I think.

Let's shift gears a little bit to this week's Cabinet Shuffle, the eighth Cabinet Shuffle in a year, which has got to be some type of record, probably well beyond the shores of Prince Edward Island.

I mean, it's an insane number when you hear it, and it just sort of speaks to how unique and slightly crazy the past year has been, the last 18 months have been in island politics.

Yeah, well, I guess I cost one of them.

So they weren't full-scale cabinet shuffles.

They were just tweaks.

Like I left, somebody had to go in.

It also knocked out about 10% of Nepal's power generation capacity and inundated several hydropower projects under construction.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has replaced six ministers in a major cabinet reshuffle as his administration enters its second year.

The changes include new defense and justice ministers and a revamp of the economic team.

Mr. Lee also filled vacancies overseeing AI and created a new presidential advisor role for major semiconductor and AI projects.

Yeah, that's different.

So the NDP had a cabinet shuffle last week, a little three-way ring around the rosy.

Josie Osborne from health to finance, Brenda Bailey from finance to jobs, Ravi Kalon from jobs to health.

Very neat and tidy.

What's your thoughts on that?

Well, I thought that the premier had to decide whether or not to do a cabinet shuffle.

Perhaps it's midterm.

Maybe he has to do a big one.

Morning, Simi.

Okay, let's start with this cabinet shuffle, shall we?

Yeah, Friday, Premier, uh, he's got the finance minister, uh, breaks the news to him that she's gonna be having cancer treatment.

Prognosis is good, but heading into a very busy time in finance, month of September, getting ready for next year's budget.

And so just when you think, you know, Premier David Eby was having a bad week, the opposition gave him a bit of a gift on Friday afternoon, Vaughn.

Yeah.

As I said, the premier wasn't quite done explaining his cabinet shuffle.

He gets a couple of questions, uh, "What do you think about [laughs] Peter Millibar leaving, uh, the Conservative caucus?" And of course it's a new finance minister, so Millibar is the finance critic, and Millibar was doing such a good job as finance critic for the opposition that Carolyn Findley, the new leader, said, "Look, I left him on the job.