Prime Minister’s Office Gives Mandate Letters to Two Ministers, Months After Shuffle

Prime Minister’s Office Gives Mandate Letters to Two Ministers, Months After Shuffle
Citizens' Services Minister Terry Beech talks to a reporter as he arrives at a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 19, 2023. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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The Prime Minister’s Office has quietly published mandate letters for two ministers who were given new portfolios in the Liberal government’s summer cabinet shuffle, but it won’t be updating its prescriptions for jobs that already existed.

The letters for the ministers in charge of the newly minted citizens’ services and sport and physical activity portfolios were posted online earlier this week, and serve as a guide to what the prime minister wants them to accomplish.