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Mitzi Dean out as B.C.’s child care, children and family development minister

Dean remains minister of state for child care after facing multiple calls for her resignation
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Mitzi Dean will no longer serve as Child and Family Development Minister following a cabinet shuffle announced Monday morning. Fellow Victoria MLA Grace Lore will take Dean’s job, while Dean will take over Lore’s old job as minister of state for child care. Andrew Mercier remains in cabinet but with the new title of minister of state for sustainable forestry while George Chow joins cabinet as parliamentary secretary for international credentials. (Screecap)

Premier David Eby has shuffled his cabinet by dropping Mitzi Dean from her post as children and family development minister, where she has faced multiple calls for her resignation over various controversies in the ministry.

While Dean remains in cabinet as minister of state for child care, her job has gone to fellow Victoria-area MLA Grace Lore, who previously served as a minister of state for child care.

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Wolf Depner

About the Author: Wolf Depner

I joined the national team with Black Press Media in 2023 from the Peninsula News Review, where I had reported on Vancouver Island's Saanich Peninsula since 2019.
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