CPC Interim Leader Candice Bergen just announced her shadow cabinet changes. Biggest shock: Michelle Rempel Garner, one of the party's most prominent MPs, no longer has a critic role. #cpcldr #cdnpoli
Rempel Garner has been nominated to sit on NSICOP, the national security committee of Parliament, which the Conservatives under former leader Erin O'Toole were boycotting.
Eric Duncan also appears to have lost his role on the front bench. The two-time Ontario MP served as O'Toole's caucus liaison, a job that will now be done by Regina's Warren Steinley.
NSICOP is of course *extremely important*, but that seems like a curious thing to do with one of your most prominent MPs (and a former cabinet minister, who has handled big files like immigration, and health during the pandemic).

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