Manitoba cabinet minister mocked for tweet of wife shovelling snow after 12-hour hospital shift

A Manitoba cabinet minister is making international headlines over a tweet that features his wife shovelling snow in extremely cold temperatures after a 12-hour overnight shift as a front-line health-care worker.

Jon Reyes, the minister of economic development and jobs, posted the photo, taken from inside his home, with the caption, “Even after a 12 hour night shift at the hospital last night, my wife still has the energy to shovel the driveway.”

“God bless her and all our frontliners. Time to make her some breakfast.”

Since the tweet was posted on Saturday, Reyes is trending on Twitter, and thousands have