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Carney appoints 28 cabinet ministers, 10 secretaries of state in Ottawa

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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his new cabinet in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 13. Carney pictured in Victoria, B.C. on April 7, 2025 during the election campaign.

Prime Minister Mark Carney and his new cabinet were sworn in in Ottawa Tuesday morning (May 13).

Carney named 28 MPs to cabinet positions and another 10 as secretaries of state, who are meant to provide leadership on key issues and priorities within their minister's portfolios.

The new cabinet includes: 

• 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, mnister 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 for small business and tourism

More to come. 

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Lauren Collins

About the Author: Lauren Collins

I'm a provincial reporter for Efteen's provincial team, after my journalism career took me around B.C. since I was 19 years old.
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