OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is announcing a mini-shuffle of his shadow cabinet today, replacing defence critic Denis Coderre with Bryon Wilfert, who is moving from associate foreign affairs critic.

Coderre, a Montreal MP, will move to heritage and official languages. Wilfert, a Toronto MP, was one of the architects of the Liberal position which led to a compromise agreement with the Harper government to extend the Canadian military mission in Afghanistan.

Newly elected MP Bob Rae, who has been serving as foreign affairs critic from outside the House of Commons, will now take over the role in the House.

Martha Hall Findlay, who like Rae was recently elected in a federal byelection in Toronto, gets the post of associate finance critic, working with finance critic John McCallum.

Gerard Kennedy will act as intergovernmental affairs critic from outside the Commons. Kennedy, former Ontario education minister, is the only one of the eight final 2006 Liberal leadership candidates who is not an MP. He plans to run in the next general election in Toronto.

Ottawa Citizen

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