Tories announced Wednesday that MP Pierre Poilievre will leave his role as shadow finance minister to become the party’s critic for jobs and industry in the latest shuffle of critic roles by the Conservatives leadership. Poilievre will be replaced by veteran B.C. MP Ed Fast, who used to serve as minister for international trade under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole said the shuffle was done to “secure jobs, secure our economy, and our future.” “Our team is relentlessly focused on rounding the corner in this pandemic and getting Canadians back to work,” O’Toole said in the news release. During his stint as a finance critic, Poilievre had, on many occasions, grilled finance minister Chrystia Freeland and her predecessor Bill Morneau over the federal government’s deficit spending, mounting debts, tax increases, and economic policies. Besides fiscal and monetary issues, during the WE Charity controversy, Poilievre had also …
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