OTTAWA — Omar Alghabra, Canada’s transport minister since January 2021, will not run for reelection and will step down from his cabinet position as a result, Alghabra announced in a Twitter post.
“I was first elected in 2006 and have had the journey of a lifetime,” Alghabra wrote. “I’m grateful for every minute of it.”
Alghabra, 53, was elected as the Liberal Party candidate in the riding of Mississauga-Erindale in 2006. Defeated in 2008, he returned to Parliament in 2015, elected in the riding of Mississauga Center. He was reelected in 2019.
Alghabra becomes at least the fourth member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet who have said they do not plan to run in the next election and will therefore be replaced, according to CTV News. Among the others: Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek, involved in the process of expropriating land for Quebec’s Lac-Mégantic rail bypass being fought by local residents.
Trudeau is expected to announce a significant shakeup of his cabinet on Wednesday.
It sounds like PM Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet is (almost) as awful as President’ Joe Biden’s cabinet (but not quite ….)
I’ll spare the readers from my boiling contempt for both leaders, as this is a Rail Foum. Let me just say, I hope the next Minister of Transport figures out that VIA needs to be fixed. VIA is to railroading as Justin Castreau is to leading a once-great nation. Both worthless.