Eight MPs are being pushed up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s front benches in a long-anticipated cabinet shuffle coming as the Prime Minister weighs his own future following a dramatic week that began with the shock exit of Chrystia Freeland.

Friday’s shuffle has been months in the making after a run of Mr. Trudeau’s ministers declared beginning in July they weren’t going to seek re-election, most recently Housing Minister Sean Fraser, or were resigning effective immediately.

But it also follows Ms. Freeland’s stunning resignation as Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister earlier this week in a rift over the direction of government, which triggered one of the Prime Minister’s most serious political crises of his tenure

She has already been replaced in Finance by Dominic LeBlanc, though no one now holds the deputy prime minister title.