Federal Transport and Internal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland is reportedly leaving the Carney government for a new international role.

Multiple media reports say Freeland is leaving her cabinet post to take on a new position that will act as an international envoy for Ukraine. The details of the new role are unclear at this point.

Freeland did not say anything to reporters on her way to a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.

While Defence Minister David McGuinty didn’t confirm the reports, he did have this to say: “She’s an extraordinary person and if Minister Freeland wants to serve in that capacity, I think she would do a wonderful job.”

Freeland was in Kyiv over the weekend, and The Globe and Mail reports Freeland met with Prime Minister Mark Carey and his chief of staff on Monday

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