'One Manitoba': Wab Kinew sworn in as Manitoba premier along with new NDP cabinet
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Manitoba's new premier, Wab Kinew, and his cabinet have been sworn in with a ceremony that featured traditional Indigenous music and dancing.
Manitoba's new premier, Wab Kinew, and his cabinet have been sworn in with a ceremony that featured traditional Indigenous music and dancing.
He led the New Democrats to victory on Oct. 3 and defeated the Progressive Conservatives, who had been in power for seven years.
"Today is a new day in our province," Kinew told those gathered at The Leaf, a botanical attraction in Winnipeg.
"The people of this province have come together to declare that we are one people, one Manitoba, who are going to build one future together."
Kinew becomes the first First Nations premier of a Canadian province and his 15-member cabinet includes, for the first time in Manitoba, First Nations women.
"Manitoba now has a Jewish lieutenant-governor, an Anishinaabe premier, a gender-balanced cabinet and a government MLA team that represents many walks of life from so many regions of this great province," he said.
The NDP captured 34 of the 57 legislature seats on election night, and Kinew had many veteran politicians and rookies from which to pick his cabinet.
