Tyler Shandro is out as Alberta’s health minister and Jason Copping is taking over the key cabinet position.

Premier Jason Kenney shuffled his cabinet Tuesday in a short swearing-in ceremony at Government House.

Shandro and Copping are swapping portfolios.

Shandro takes over as the minister of labour and immigration.

The shuffle comes as Alberta is struggling with a devastating fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and Kenney faces turmoil within his own caucus.

The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on the province’s health-care system, bringing it to the brink of collapse.

Also Tuesday, Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver issued a letter to the