CMEDIA: Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet reportedly has been sworn in at Rideau Hall and includes two dozen new faces and several longtime ministers.
Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson, Northwest Territories’ Rebecca Alty, Marjorie Michel, who was elected in former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Papineau riding, and former special adviser to Carney at the Bank of Canada and Goldman Sachs CEO Tim Hodgson are among the newcomers.
Joining the front bench are former broadcaster Evan Solomon, lawyer and one of the Liberals’ two MPs in Alberta Eleanor Olszewski, and engineer and survivor of the École Polytechnique mass shooting Nathalie Provost.
Several returning longtime ministers from Trudeau’s cabinet include François-Philippe Champagne, Dominic LeBlanc, Melanie Joly, Steven MacKinnon, Steven Guilbeault and Chrystia Freeland.
Core Trudeau team keeps senior roles
Freeland, who resigned last December amid escalating tensions with the prime minister got a seat on Carney’s election-time caretaker cabinet in mid-March and is staying on as minister of transport and internal trade.
Having been an MP since 2000 and a member of cabinet since 2015 becomes minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, intergovernmental affairs, and One Canadian Economy.
Housing, immigration, and energy and natural resources which Trudeau’s government faced harsh criticism during Trudeau will be taken over by first-time ministers.
Committing to uphold gender parity, Carney’s cabinet is made up of 14 men and 14 women, excluding himself.
Having served as environment and climate change minister from 2019 to 2021, and as energy and natural resources minister as of 2021, Jonathan Wilkinson confirmed on social media Tuesday he’s out of Carney’s cabinet.
“The privilege of serving this country over the past seven years remains one of the greatest honours of my life,” Wilkinson wrote in a statement posted to X.
Former Toronto Police Service chief and cabinet minister since 2018 Bill Blair is also no longer a member of cabinet. Most recently, Blair headed up the national defence portfolio.
Here is the full list of Carney’s cabinet:
- Shafqat Ali, President of the Treasury Board
- Rebecca Alty, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
- Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety
- Rebecca Chartrand, Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
- François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue
- Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
- Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
- Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Transport and Internal Trade
- Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages
- Mandy Gull-Masty, Minister of Indigenous Services
- Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
- Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
- Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
- Dominic LeBlanc, President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy
- Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement
- Heath MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
- Steven MacKinnon, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
- David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defence
- Jill McKnight, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence
- Lena Metlege Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
- Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health
- Eleanor Olszewski, Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience and Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada
- Gregor Robertson, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada
- Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade
- Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
- Joanne Thompson, Minister of Fisheries
- Rechie Valdez, Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism)
Making up the ministry are 10 secretaries of state:
- Buckley Belanger, Secretary of State (Rural Development)
- Stephen Fuhr, Secretary of State (Defence Procurement)
- Anna Gainey, Secretary of State (Children and Youth)
- Wayne Long, Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions)
- Stephanie McLean, Secretary of State (Seniors)
- Nathalie Provost, Secretary of State (Nature)
- Ruby Sahota, Secretary of State (Combatting Crime)
- Randeep Sarai, Secretary of State (International Development)
- Adam van Koeverden, Secretary of State (Sport)
- John Zerucelli, Secretary of State (Labour)
