Prime Minister Mark Carney is giving his cabinet a major shakeup, moving several key players involved in Canada-U.S. relations into new positions and promoting some newly elected MPs to the front bench.
The new cabinet is being sworn in at a ceremony at Rideau Hall. Watch it live here.
Carney’s cabinet — made up of 28 full ministers and 10 secretaries of state — retains major figures from former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government, including Dominic LeBlanc, Mélanie Joly, Chrystia Freeland and François-Philippe Champagne.
Anita Anand is Canada’s new foreign affairs minister and former justice minister Gary Anandasangaree takes over public safety.
Joly, the former foreign affairs minister, will take on the complex industry portfolio, while former public safety minister David McGuinty becomes the new defence minister.
Champagne keeps his role as finance minister and LeBlanc will spearhead Canada-U.S. trade.
Carney has dropped several cabinet veterans from the Trudeau years, including former natural resources minister Jonathan Wilkinson, former defence minister Bill Blair and former agriculture minister Kody Blois.
The ministers:
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
François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue
Rebecca Chartrand, Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
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)The 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)Secretaries of state are effectively junior ministers with a lower salary, smaller office budgets, fewer staff and fewer statutory authorities. The current pay scale shows full cabinet ministers make an additional $99,900 on top of their MP salary of $209,800. Secretaries of state are set to earn $74,700 on top of their MP salary.
The PMO official said secretaries of state will be invited to cabinet and cabinet committee meetings, but only those related to their portfolio.
This is Carney’s second cabinet, though it’s his first not under a caretaker government. He initially whittled his team down to 23 from 39 in the final cabinet under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Carney has committed to gender parity in his cabinet — a standard established by Trudeau when he took office in 2015.
Parliament is slated to return May 26 and Carney has announced that King Charles will deliver the speech from the throne the next day.
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