François-Philippe Champagne has been promising a tougher line on China for over a year.
It was a curious quirk of providence that at the precise moment he finally announced tough new measures aimed at addressing human rights violations in Xinjiang province, he was being shuffled out of the foreign affairs portfolio.
It’s a little puzzling that the prime minister didn’t take the opportunity to cull under-performing ministers.
But this shake-up was done with an election in mind in a matter of months. Bumping bunglers might have upset the gender balance in cabinet and would be an admission of imperfection from a prime minister who prefers to present his government as infallible.
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