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Conservative leader names shadow cabinet ahead of national caucus meeting
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is naming his shadow cabinet.
His predecessor Andrew Scheer will be the party’s infrastructure critic.
O’Toole is keeping Ontario’s Pierre Poilievre as finance critic and promoting Alberta’s Michelle Rempel Garner to health critic.
Ontario MP Michael Chong is taking a big step up to become the Conservatives’ critic for foreign affairs.
New Brunswick’s Rob Moore will be justice critic.
Critics are government ministers’ main questioners in the House of Commons and are supposed to be ready to move into their offices if the Opposition took over governing.
The Conservatives have a national caucus meeting on Wednesday.
O’Toole says they’ll soon present their own plan for economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.