Time I: Front and Community Work

time i: Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS By Alex Ballingall News Tues., Jan. 10, 2017 OTTAWA In 2004, Ahmed Hussen was proclaimed a Person to Watch in the country's biggest city for his community work in Regent Park, according to Toronto Star. He told the Star at the time I don't think I could handle the life of a politician . . . I don't want to be front and centre. David Johnston after being sworn in as Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship during a cabinet shuffle at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Tuesday. Flash forward to Tuesday, and there was Hussen, front and slightly to the right, swearing an oath to serve the Queen in front of a cluster of clicking cameras as he officially joined the reshuffled Liberal cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He came to this country as a refugee from war-torn Somalia, settling on his own in a foreign land as a 16-year-old in 1993. The rookie MP for York-South Weston has leapt from the backbench of the party to become Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, a position made all the more noteworthy for Hussen's own story. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.