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B.C. Premier David Eby has rearranged his cabinet after Finance Minister Brenda Bailey announced a cancer diagnosis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Health Minister Josie Osborne will take over the finance portfolio, while Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon will step into the Health Ministry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bailey, who announced that she has an early-stage, treatable cancer and would be returning to work in the fall, will be replacing Kahlon in the jobs portfolio.<\/p>\n
Eby said Friday that Bailey will be taking six weeks for treatment but that she wants to keep working and will be back in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The good news is it’s caught early, it’s treatable, and her doctor said the prognosis is very good,” he said.<\/p>\n
The premier said budget preparations are already underway with deadlines and milestones to be set out in September, which is why the timeline didn’t work for Bailey.<\/p>\n
“This is a very heavy workload, obviously, to carry while you are also going through cancer treatment. Nobody should have to do that,” he said. <\/p>\n
“And so Brenda will be going back to a file that she knows and can excel at with work she can pick up immediately once she’s back.”<\/p>\n
Bailey said it’s an “elegant solution.”<\/p>\n
“I get to be back on a file that I’m deeply committed to and know very well, and I don’t slow down the budget process in the meantime, so I thank the premier for his flexibility and my colleagues for stepping in when needed,” she said.<\/p>\n
Energy Minister Adrian Dix will fill in for Bailey in the Jobs and Economic Growth Ministry in the weeks that she undergoes her cancer treatment.<\/p>\n
Bailey delivered the latest fiscal update on Monday, revealing\u00a0B.C.’s deficit was $7.7 billion for fiscal year 2025-2026, which was $3.3 billion below the previous estimate.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-858334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}