Prime Minister Carney to announce major cabinet shakeup Tuesday with many new faces going in
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Prime Minister Mark Carney will unveil his new cabinet Tuesday after returning his party to power last month — and some major front-bench changes are expected as he looks to remake the Liberals in his image.
An official in the Prime Minister's Office, speaking to CBC News on background, said roughly half of the soon-to-be ministers walking up the driveway to Rideau Hall for the swearing-in ceremony will be new to cabinet.
The government official said the cabinet will be on the smaller side — fewer than 30 full cabinet members — but there will be also be as many as 10 secretaries of state, a long-dormant ministerial designation Carney is reviving.
There will be many new faces around the cabinet table because Carney got a mandate from voters to change up the government, the official said.
Senior Liberal sources tell CBC News that Sean Fraser, a past housing and immigration minister who left federal politics in December before jumping back into the fray, will serve as the justice minister.
Tim Hodgson, a seasoned Toronto-area business executive who was just elected, will serve as the minister of natural resources and energy, replacing Jonathan Wilkinson who will be left out of cabinet. Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Roberston will be Carney's new housing minister, sources said.
Sources also tell CBC News and Radio-Canada that Quebec MPs Joël Lightbound, who was first elected in 2015, and Nathalie Provost, a gun control advocate elected earlier this month, will also be among the people being sworn in Tuesday — but it's unclear if they will be full ministers or secretaries of state.
Newly elected MPs Eleanor Olszewski, who represents Edmonton, and Rebecca Alty from the Northwest Territories are also going in as either ministers or secretaries of state, sources said. New Brunswick MP Wayne Long, who was instrumental in pushing former prime minister Justin Trudeau to resign, is also going in.
Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland and Canadian Culture and Identity Minister Steven Guilbeault will both remain in cabinet in some capacity, sources said.
All told, every province and the North will have either a full cabinet minister or a secretary of state, at a minimum, sources said.
Carney is building a team to take on U.S. President Donald Trump and his tariffs and help prop up a faltering Canadian economy as the country grapples with higher joblessness amid tremendous trade uncertainty.
The prime minister is also dealing with some restlessness in Western Canada as some of the region's leaders, including Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, urge the federal government to be more friendly to their interests, namely fast-tracking natural resource development, after a period of perceived hostility under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Carney and his team have been relatively tight-lipped about what's to come — with the newly elected prime minister only saying he will have an "efficient" and "focused" cabinet, which suggests there will be fewer people in the ministry than there were under Trudeau. Like his predecessor, Carney is promising gender parity around the table.
By comparison, Trudeau's last cabinet had 39 ministers — roughly a quarter of the Liberal caucus — while Carney's interim cabinet, announced shortly after he assumed the party's leadership in March, had just 24.
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