Veteran Liberal MP Joyce Murray was named president of the Treasury Board on Monday, filling the hole left in the Trudeau cabinet by the departure of Jane Philpott two weeks earlier.

It is the first federal cabinet posting for Murray, who has represented the riding of Vancouver Quadra since 2008. She placed second behind Trudeau when he overwhelmingly won the Liberal Party’s leadership race in 2013.

Murray was previously serving as the parliament secretary to the president of the Treasury Board. She held multiple cabinet roles during her time as a member of British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly.

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This is the third federal cabinet shuffle in the past three months.

The first was undertaken after Scott Brison resigned as Treasury Board president. In that shuffle in January, Philpott was appointed as Brison’s replacement and Jody Wilson-Raybould was moved from attorney general and justice minister to minister of Veterans Affairs. The next cabinet shuffle was triggered by Wilson-Raybould’s resignation.

Philpott resigned two weeks ago, saying in a public letter that she had “lost confidence” in the Trudeau government’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin controversy.

Philpott cited cabinet solidarity as justification for her decision, saying that she couldn’t be expected to defend decisions of the government that she didn’t agree with.

“In Canada, the constitutional convention of Cabinet solidarity means, among other things, that ministers are expected to defend all cabinet decisions,” Philpott wrote.

“A minister must always be prepared to defend other ministers publicly, and must speak in support of the government and its policies. Given this convention and the current circumstances, it is untenable for me to continue to serve as a cabinet minister.”

The night of Philpott’s resignation, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that Trudeau had spoken to Philpott that day and accepted her resignation. He told supporters that night in Toronto that he knew Philpott had “felt this way for some time.”

Philpott was considered one of Trudeau’s most capable ministers and had repeatedly been moved to positions of importance within cabinet. Carla Qualtrough, the minister of Public Service and Procurement, oversaw the Treasury Board as its acting president for two weeks.

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