Poilievre shuffles critic roles in Conservative caucus, moves Chong to finance
Poilievre’s first major front-bench reset since last year’s election gives Chong the finance file as the party seeks a broader opposition team.
- On Tuesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre shuffled his front bench, naming Ontario MP Michael Chong as the party's new finance critic in his first major shadow cabinet reset since last year's election.
- Facing pressure to rotate his team after failing to form government, Poilievre initiated this reset to bring fresh perspectives to his inner circle as the Conservatives trail Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals by roughly 10 percentage points.
- Chong, who served as foreign-affairs critic for nearly six years, replaces Calgary MP Jasraj Singh Hallan, who moves to national revenue; the 120-member Conservative caucus utilizes 84 critics including Poilievre.
- B.C. MP Aaron Gunn assumes the ethics and government accountability role from Michael Barrett, who transitions to veterans affairs, while Chong intends to focus on economic data to argue the Carney Liberals are failing Canadians.
- "That function is central to what Parliament does, and my job is to critique the government," Chong said, emphasizing Parliament's fundamental power over the purse and his intent to challenge taxation and spending policies.
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Poilievre names local MP Chong as new finance critic in Conservative caucus shuffle
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'Part of the solution is time': How the new Conservative finance critic thinks the party can regain ground
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