Canada’s Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser has decided that he will not run in next year’s federal election, creating a new vacancy in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet.
CTV News reported that two unnamed “senior federal government sources” claimed Fraser is considering a run at the Nova Scotia provincial Liberal leadership, which withstood a significant loss to the Progressive Conservatives in last month’s provincial election.
Fraser was first elected as a Member of Parliament in 2015 when the Trudeau government took power. He was appointed immigration minister following the Liberals’ 2021 election win and coordinated the Trudeau government’s plan to boost Canada’s annual immigration target to 500,000 by 2025. However, that target has since been dialed down to 395,000 to ease the burden created by the massive influx of immigrants on housing availability and social programs. He became housing minister in 2023 and has set the goal to build 3.87 million new homes by 2031.
Fraser was the sixth cabinet member to step away from Trudeau’s administration ahead of the next election. Earlier today, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned from the cabinet after disagreeing with Trudeau’s approach to the tariff threat from President-elect Donald Trump.
“On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your Finance Minister and offered me another position in the cabinet,” Freeland wrote in her resignation to Trudeau. “Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from the cabinet.”
Photo courtesy of Sean Fraser’s Facebook page
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