... Here’s who’s in, and who is being handed new responsibilities.
Ontario MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith** becomes Canada’s next housing, infrastructure and communities minister, taking over for Sean Fraser, who announced on Monday that he wouldn’t be running again.
And, taking over the public safety portfolio from Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc – who took on the top economic post on Monday after Chrystia Freeland’s stunning resignation – is Ontario MP and current chair of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) David McGuinty.
The other Liberal MPs who have joined cabinet are:
- Quebec MP Rachel Bendayan, becoming Canada’s official languages minister and associate minister of public safety.
- Quebec MP Élisabeth Brière, becoming the minister of national revenue, taking over for Marie-Claude Bibeau who isn’t running again.
- Manitoba MP Terry Duguid, who becomes minister of sport and the minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada.
- Nova Scotia MP Darren Fisher, who is Canada’s new minister of veterans affairs and associate defence minister.
- Newfoundland and Labrador MP Joanne Thompson, taking on the minister of seniors title, which was a role handed off, after Seamus O’Regan left cabinet, and
- Ontario MP and outgoing whip Ruby Sahota who picks up the democratic institutions portfolio and becomes the minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, a role outgoing minister Filomena Tassi held.
The current cabinet ministers moving into new, or amended positions are:
- Anita Anand, who had been doing double duty as Treasury Board president and transport minister, is now the minister of transport and internal trade.
- Gary Anandasangaree, who maintains his role as minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, picks up the northern affairs and Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency positions from Dan Vandal who isn’t running again.
- Steven MacKinnon, who keeps his job as labour minister but is also taking on the employment, workforce development and official languages role from Randy Boissonnault, who left cabinet last month to focus on clearing the allegations against him.
- And, Ginette Petitpas Taylor becomes Canada’s next Treasury Board president ...
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