Carney brings Trudeau-era minister back into cabinet, adds responsibilities to 2 others
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Prime Minister Mark Carney shook up his front bench Monday afternoon, bringing a Trudeau-era minister into his cabinet while adding responsibilities to two other ministers.
Marc Miller is the new minister of Canadian identity and culture, as well as official languages.
Public Works and Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound was given the additional role of being Carney’s Quebec lieutenant while Minister of Environment and Climate Change Julie Dabrusin added parks and nature to her file.
All of those responsibilities had previously been held by former minister Steven Guilbeault who resigned from cabinet last week.
Miller had been in charge of immigration, Crown-Indigenous relations and Indigenous services under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
The Montreal MP was not given a cabinet post when Carney first took office.
Lightbound was first elected in 2015 and has been a parliamentary secretary to a number of cabinet ministers, but was only given his first cabinet post following the April election.
Similarly, Dabrusin had served as a parliamentary secretary under Trudeau, but was promoted to cabinet under Carney in the spring.
Guilbeault quit cabinet over Thursday’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta, which jointly agrees on a path forward for a new bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast.
As part of the agreement with Alberta, Ottawa will suspend the proposed federal oil and gas emissions cap and remove Alberta's requirements under the Clean Electricity Regulations — both of which were introduced while Guilbeault was environment minister.
Carney had previously walked back other Trudeau-era environmental policies, notably suspending the consumer carbon tax on his first day as prime minister.
Guilbeault referenced several of these policies in a statement on Thursday.
“Over the past few months, several elements of the climate action plan I worked on as minister of the environment have been, or are about to be, dismantled.… In my view, these measures remain essential to our climate action plan,” he wrote.
Guilbeault is staying on as a Liberal MP.
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