Ottawa [Canada], May 14 (HBTV): Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday unveiled a 38-member cabinet, comprising 28 ministers and 10 Secretaries of State. The Secretaries of State will provide focused leadership on key issues within their respective ministerial portfolios.
Following the cabinet announcement, Carney highlighted the government's top priorities: establishing new economic and security relationships with the United States, tackling the cost of living, and strengthening Canada's economy.
Sharing a post on X, Carney wrote:‘Canada, meet your new Cabinet. This is a team that is empowered and expected to lead. Together, we will create a new economic and security relationship with the United States and build a stronger economy — the strongest economy in the G7.’
In another post, he added:‘Canadians elected this new government with a strong mandate: to define a new economic and security relationship with the United States, bring down the cost of living, and build a stronger economy. This new cabinet is focused, ready, and built for this moment.’
One of the key appointments in the newly formed cabinet is Indian-origin leader Anita Anand, who has been named Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The cabinet also includes Shafqat Ali as President of the Treasury Board; Rebecca Alty as Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations; Gary Anandasangaree as Minister of Public Safety; Francois-Philippe Champagne as Minister of Finance and National Revenue; Rebecca Chartrand as Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency; Julie Dabrusin as Minister of Environment and Climate Change; Sean Fraser as Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; Chrystia Freeland as Minister of Transport and Internal Trade; Steven Guilbeault as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages; Mandy Gull-Masty as Minister of Indigenous Services; Patty Hajdu as Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario; Tim Hodgson as Minister of Energy and Natural Resources; Melanie Joly as Minister of Industry; and Dominic LeBlanc as Minister responsible for Canada-US Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy.
Other key appointments include Joel Lightbound as Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement; Heath MacDonald as Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food; Steven MacKinnon as Leader of the Government in the House of Commons; David J. McGuinty as Minister of National Defence; Jill McKnight as Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence; Lena Metlege Diab as Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship; Marjorie Michel as Minister of Health; Eleanor Olszewski as Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience and Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada; Gregor Robertson as Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada; Maninder Sidhu as Minister of International Trade; Evan Solomon as Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario; Joanne Thompson as Minister of Fisheries; and Rechie Valdez as Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism).
(ANI)