Why just 50% women? If it were me, I'd have gone with all women just to prove I'm frugal. Apparently they get paid less.The new Cabinet is appointed as follows:
The Cabinet will be supported by 10 secretaries of State who will provide dedicated leadership on key issues and priorities within their minister’s portfolio.
- Shafqat Ali, President of the Treasury Board
- Rebecca Alty, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
- Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety
- François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue
- Rebecca Chartrand, Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
- Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
- Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
- Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Transport and Internal Trade
- Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages
- Mandy Gull-Masty, Minister of Indigenous Services
- Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
- Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
- Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
- Dominic LeBlanc, President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy
- Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement
- Heath MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
- Steven MacKinnon, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
- David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defence
- Jill McKnight, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence
- Lena Metlege Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
- Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health
- Eleanor Olszewski, Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience and Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada
- Gregor Robertson, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada
- Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade
- Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
- Joanne Thompson, Minister of Fisheries
- Rechie Valdez, Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism)
The new secretaries of State are appointed as follows:
- Buckley Belanger, Secretary of State (Rural Development)
- Stephen Fuhr, Secretary of State (Defence Procurement)
- Anna Gainey, Secretary of State (Children and Youth)
- Wayne Long, Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions)
- Stephanie McLean, Secretary of State (Seniors)
- Nathalie Provost, Secretary of State (Nature)
- Ruby Sahota, Secretary of State (Combatting Crime)
- Randeep Sarai, Secretary of State (International Development)
- Adam van Koeverden, Secretary of State (Sport)
- John Zerucelli, Secretary of State (Labour)
Prime Minister announces new Ministry
The new government will act to catalyze investment and build a new Canadian economy – one that creates higher-paying careers, raises incomes, and can withstand future shocks.www.pm.gc.ca
In Carney’s eyes, Fraser’s blundering on two key files qualifies him to become justice minister. The only thing worse than Fraser as a cabinet minister may be Carney’s judgment (In December, when Liberal fortunes were in the toilet, Fraser announced that, for family reasons, he was quitting politics. Strangely, after the party witnessed a reversal in the polls, he announced he was returning).
And the list of top cabinet posts goes on, all sounding familiar because they were all Trudeau devotees who sat around his cabinet table: François-Philippe Champagne, Anita Anand, Patty Hajdu, Steven Guilbeault, Gary Anandasangaree, David McGuinty, Steven MacKinnon, Rechie Valdez and Joanne Thompson.
That would be difficult, since not a single one of them has any.
Expecting to remain in cabinet, Toronto MP dumped stock portfolioNate Erskine-Smith says he feels ’disrespected’ after being dropped from cabinet
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Catherine Morrison
Published May 13, 2025 • Last updated 13 hours ago • 2 minute read
OTTAWA — Former housing minister Nate Erskine-Smith says it’s “impossible not to feel disrespected” after being dropped from cabinet.
In a series of social media posts Tuesday, the member of Parliament for Beaches-East York said he ran in the recent election for the opportunity to make “an even bigger difference around the cabinet table and to help fix the housing crisis.”
“Congratulations to new and old colleagues who were sworn in today,” Erskine-Smith said in a post. “This moment calls for a capable team ready to get to work quickly. It’s nice to see a number of colleagues receive overdue recognition and I’m hopeful we’ll see a lot accomplished in the coming months.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney shook up his cabinet Tuesday by moving some key players involved in Canada-U.S. relations into new positions and promoting 24 new faces in a move meant to signal change at the top.
Erskine-Smith was among 10 people Carney dropped from his cabinet.
Erskine-Smith, who was first elected in 2015, said in January 2024 that he wouldn’t run again in the next federal election, but reversed course in December after he was appointed minister of housing by then-prime minister Justin Trudeau.
He said that the way things played out with the new cabinet “doesn’t sit right” with him.
“But I’m mostly disappointed that my team and I won’t have the chance to build on all we accomplished with only a short runway,” he said in a social media post.
Erskine-Smith said that while “you never know what the future holds,” for now he’ll be “working hard” for his constituents, restarting his podcast and returning to Parliament with “a renewed sense of freedom.”
Also left out of the cabinet on Tuesday were former defence minister Bill Blair, former energy minister Jonathan Wilkinson, former Treasury Board president Ginette Petitpas Taylor and former environment minister Terry Duguid.
Several MPs who were shuffled out took to social media Tuesday to express their gratitude for the opportunity to serve.
Wilkinson said serving the country in cabinet “remains one of the greatest honours” of his life.
Petitpas Taylor congratulated the members of Carney’s cabinet and said in French that she was proud to serve Moncton_Dieppe and support the government in building “a better Canada for all.”
Arielle Kayabaga, who served as minister of democratic institutions and leader of the government in the House of Commons in Carney’s first cabinet, said she was “deeply honoured” to have had the opportunity to serve as a member of the prime minister’s team.
— With files from Kyle Duggan
Nate Erskine-Smith says he feels ’disrespected’ after being dropped from cabinet
Former housing minister Nate Erskine-Smith says it's "impossible not to feel disrespected" after being dropped from cabinet.torontosun.com
Team Liberal with its new cabinet can’t even agree on what is the truth…or at least their truth.
DEI dictatorship.Team Liberal with its new cabinet can’t even agree on what is the truth…or at least their truth.
In response to widespread political backlash, Prime Minister Mark Carney has now moved up the date of his government’s first federal budget to this fall instead of next year.
LILLEY: Carney cleans up a Bubbly mess from his cabinet — Toronto Sun
Cabinet ministers sitting around the table in Ottawa this week should expect an earful from Prime Minister Mark Carney. Stop freelancing, stay on message, and don’t contradict the boss is what they will likely hear. After some generally positive reviews of his cabinet picks, along with some...apple.news
…barely a month ago, on April 19, Carney released what he described as the Liberals’ costed campaign platform, containing $130 billion in new spending over four years with deficits totalling $224.8 billion.
EDITORIAL: Questions surround Carney’s first budget — Toronto Sun
In response to widespread political backlash, Prime Minister Mark Carney has now moved up the date of his government’s first federal budget to this fall instead of next year. That comes just days after Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said that instead of a full budget, the...
It also projected increased government revenues of $51.75 billion during that time, coming from a combination of tariffs, increases to government fines and penalties and “savings from increased government productivity,” which almost every government promises and few deliver.
Finally, it detailed the predicted costs of fulfilling Liberal election promises, so why Carney couldn’t produce a budget this spring remains a mystery — unless the figures contained in the campaign platform aren’t to be taken seriously.
For the last 10 years, we’ve had a Liberal government that actively sought to suppress the oil and gas industry. They got in the way of pipeline projects proposed by the private sector, had to buy another pipeline after their policies made it untenable; and they also passed Bill C-69, an emissions cap and a West coast tanker ban.It’s certain after Trump’s posturing that Canada should build the strongest possible economy we can. This would involve developing our energy and natural resources to finally tap into Canada’s long-ignored economic potential. However, if Carney’s past, as an advocate of onerous climate policies, up until the day before throwing his hat into the Liberal leadership ring indicates his future agenda, he is unlikely to pursue conventional energy projects such as oil and LNG pipelines.
Besides now being head of the party for whom he formerly served as economic advisor, the party responsible for over-regulating the process of building energy projects which helped drive away investors in the first place, Carney may be even more focused on clean rather than conventional energy than climate activist former environment minister Steven Guilbeault.
Not convinced? Read his 2021 book, Value(s): Building a Better World for All, where he states twice that 80 per cent of fossil fuels need to remain in the ground. Still not convinced? Then note his former role as UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, his co-founding of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), and the funds he created at Brookfield for the purposes of transitioning the world off of fossil fuels.
More importantly, instead of seizing on the fact that CUSMA is still, mostly, being honoured, and reassuring Canadians that he’s the man to renegotiate a new trade agreement with the U.S., Carney continued with the war language that’s been working for himself and the Liberal party thus far, telling reporters that he’s going to “fight these tariffs with countermeasures.”
It’s not yet clear whether that’s necessary or wise.
And there’s evidence that seeking exemptions through negotiations, rather than aggressive language and counter-tariffs, might be more a useful approach. At least until we wait out the effects Trump’s tariffs may have on his own voters.
Terry Newman: Mark Carney, put your elbows down — National Post
Seeking exemptions through negotiations, rather than aggressive language and counter-tariffs, might be more a useful approach
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith celebrated Canada’s escaping the new round of tariffs, and the Americans largely respecting CUSMA. “This is precisely what I have been advocating for from the U.S. Administration for months,” she said.
Now, the day after Canada avoided further tariffs, Carney has chosen the elbow’s up approach, choosing to escalate with 25 per cent counter-tariffs on U.S. autos, that are not compliant under CUSMA.
It isn’t clear that an immediate elbows up approach, even though it seems to have reinvigorated the Liberal base, is the correct response for Canadians economic interests and any future relationship with our neighbours to the south.
Carney, at this point, is still a caretaker prime minister until he’s officially elected by Canadians. His choice to escalate with countermeasures now, when the situation is the same as it was before “Liberation Day,” is curious. Is Carney making this decision as a caretaker PM who is running in an election and knows elbows up has pleased the Liberal base so far, or is he making it in a thoughtful and measured capacity?
(YouTube & LILLEY UNLEASHED: Carney’s bad habit of not telling the truth)
Sounds like Trump is being reeled in domestically, and Musk is walking away from their four month play date. Maybe…
Look for "Green Hydrogen" and carbon capture to play a big role in Canada’s energy future.For the last 10 years, we’ve had a Liberal government that actively sought to suppress the oil and gas industry. They got in the way of pipeline projects proposed by the private sector, had to buy another pipeline after their policies made it untenable; and they also passed Bill C-69, an emissions cap and a West coast tanker ban.
So, people are looking to understand the position of the new Carney government and it’s not easy because the man won’t answer a simple question in a straightforward manner.
He says he wants Canada to be a “clean and conventional energy superpower,” but he never defines the term. He will make a statement that could be taken to be supportive of pipelines and prattle on at length making statements calling all of what you previously heard into question, all the while never being clear or concise, etc…so consistently liberal.
Canada’s natural resource industries – oil and gas, mining, forestry, agriculture – are the biggest drivers of our GDP and our productivity — that’s in spite of the last decade. The workers in these industries and the executives running companies in these fields and making investment decisions need clear answers.
Next week, Carney goes to Saskatoon for a meeting with all of the premiers. That would be a very good time for him to offer all Canadians a bit of clarity.
LILLEY: Carney speaks out of both sides of his mouth on pipelines — Toronto Sun
Refuses to give clear answers on some rather important clear questions
