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With just a few days to go before the House re-opens for business, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled the master list of parliamentary secretaries who will be charged with providing support to their respective ministers when the House re-opens for business next week.

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And while the new roster does include 10 newly promoted backbenchers – including two of the four rookie Liberal MPs who served on the now decommissioned all-party special committee on electoral reform – the prime minister also made 13 shuffles within the ranks, and 12 assignments didn’t change at all.

Finally, 8 now former parliamentary secretaries were shuffled out of the job entirely, including Pablo Rodriguez, who took over as government whip earlier this month after Liberal MP Andrew Leslie was named parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs with special responsibility for Canada-US relations.