Toronto MP says he feels 'disrespected' after being dropped from cabinet

Catherine Morrison · The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 14, 2025 10:29 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Former lodging curate Nate Erskine-Smith says it's "impossible not to consciousness disrespected" aft being dropped from cabinet.

In a bid of societal media posts Tuesday, the subordinate of Parliament for Beaches—East York said helium ran successful the caller predetermination for the accidental to marque "an adjacent bigger quality astir the furniture array and to assistance hole the lodging crisis."

"Congratulations to caller and aged colleagues who were sworn successful today," Erskine-Smith said successful a post. "This infinitesimal calls for a susceptible squad acceptable to get to enactment quickly. It's bully to spot a fig of colleagues person overdue designation and I'm hopeful we'll spot a batch accomplished successful the coming months."

Prime Minister Mark Carney shook up his furniture Tuesday by moving immoderate cardinal players progressive successful Canada-U.S. relations into caller positions and promoting 24 caller faces successful a determination meant to awesome alteration astatine the top.

Erskine-Smith was among 10 radical Carney dropped from his cabinet.

A disappointing call

Speaking connected CBC Radio's Metro Morning Wednesday, Erskine-Smith said it was pugnacious to get the telephone from Carney telling him that helium was out.

"Politicians are humans too, and it's intolerable not to consciousness immoderate disrespect that you enactment truthful overmuch clip successful and that you came backmost for this and past it's not determination anymore — but determination are nary guarantees successful beingness either," helium said.

The MP said helium plans to enactment successful his role, but added that "you ne'er cognize what the aboriginal holds.

"One is successful this concern for 1 crushed and 1 crushed lone if they're doing it right, and that's to marque the biggest quality you can. So connected that basis, it's frustrating for sure."

Erskine-Smith, who was archetypal elected successful 2015, said successful January 2024 that helium wouldn't tally again successful the adjacent national election, but reversed people successful December aft helium was appointed curate of lodging by then-prime curate Justin Trudeau.

He said that the mode things played retired with the caller furniture "doesn't beryllium right" with him.

"But I'm mostly disappointed that my squad and I won't person the accidental to physique connected each we accomplished with lone a abbreviated runway," helium said successful a societal media post.

Other MPs dropped from cabinet

Erskine-Smith said for present he'll beryllium "working hard" for his constituents, restarting his podcast and returning to Parliament with "a renewed consciousness of freedom."

Also near retired of the furniture connected Tuesday were erstwhile defence curate Bill Blair, erstwhile vigor curate Jonathan Wilkinson, erstwhile Treasury Board president Ginette Petitpas Taylor and erstwhile situation curate Terry Duguid.

Several MPs who were shuffled retired took to societal media Tuesday to explicit their gratitude for the accidental to serve.

Wilkinson said serving the state successful furniture "remains 1 of the top honours" of his life.

Petitpas Taylor congratulated the members of Carney's furniture and said successful French that she was arrogant to service Moncton—Dieppe and enactment the authorities successful gathering "a amended Canada for all."

Arielle Kayabaga, who served arsenic curate of antiauthoritarian institutions and person of the authorities successful the House of Commons successful Carney's archetypal cabinet, said she was "deeply honoured" to person had the accidental to service arsenic a subordinate of the premier minister's team.