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Poilievre shuffles critic cabinet, Gunn and Baber get positions

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announces shadow cabinet re-shuffle including an ethics critic role for Aaron Gunn and Roman Baber receiving the civil liberties critic portfolio.

Clayton DeMaine
Jun 30, 2026
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The Conservative shadow cabinet of official opposition critics has received a reshuffle which brings some of the newly elected MPs into prominent critic roles.

BC MP and former documentary maker, Aaron Gunn was granted the role as Canada’s official ethics and accountable government critic. Gunn was given this role as Conservatives push for a conflict of interest investigation into the feds working with the BC government to buy out condos.

Gunn is replacing Michael Cooper in the role, as Cooper takes on the role as the Conservative’s veteran affairs critic.

Roman Baber, another MP,who gained his federal seat during the last election, was given a role as the Conservative critic for Civil Liberties.

Baber comes into the role, once held by floor-crosser Marilyn Gladu as the Liberal Majority government continues to push for censorship and surveillance laws which have drawn significant criticism from civil liberties organizations in Canada.

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