The Canadian PM is facing a potential national unity crisis.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday made major changes to his cabinet, making several ministerial appointments in a hid to help stave off increasing unhappiness in the energy-producing west.
Trudeau moved close ally Chrystia Freeland from the foreign ministry and made her minister of intergovernmental affairs, where she will be dealing directly with Alberta and Saskatchewan. Freeland, who rose to prominence by leading Canada's team at talks to renegotiate a new continental trade deal, also takes on the more symbolic role of deputy prime minister. Freeland is often touted as a possible successor to the prime minister.She could be facing a tough task. Alberta's ruling United Conservative Party has variously demanded the new environmental rules be scrapped or be toned down.
Daniel Beland, who heads the Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill University in Montreal, said the government's policy towards the west"is more important than who ... is around the Cabinet table". Trudeau named former Trade Minister Jim Carr, who has cancer, to act as his special representative for Alberta, Saskatchewan and the central province of Manitoba.
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