Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to overhaul his cabinet Tuesday, with over 50 per cent of the MPs who will be heading to Rideau Hall set to be first-time ministers, sources tell Global News. The cabinet will be separated into two groups, sources say.
The first group will be made up of senior cabinet ministers, with fewer than 30 people holding key portfolios — including foreign affairs, defence, and the minister poised to lead negotiations with the Trump administration. International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Finance Minister Francois-Phillipe Champagne are anticipated to stay in their posts. But multiple sources tell Global News that Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly may be shuffled out of her current role.
Multiple sources say Anita Anand will be the new justice minister. Multiple sources said it was likely Chrystia Freeland – a key member of the previous Liberal government who Carney named internal trade minister last month – would be out of cabinet, but by Monday night senior Liberal sources including one with direct knowledge of the plans said she would remain in.
Half a dozen sources throughout the day and evening described the process of determining who would be in cabinet as “chaotic.”
Housing Minister Nate Erskine-Smith is also not anticipated to return to cabinet, sources say. New faces expected to be senior cabinet ministers are Vancouver Fraserview—South Burnaby MP Gregor Robertson, the former mayor of Vancouver, and Markham—Thornhill MP Tim Hodgson, a former executive at Hydro One and an advisor to Carney when the prime minister served as governor of the Bank of Canada.
The second cabinet group will consist of up to 10 junior ministers, roles the government plans to call “secretaries of state” but which in the past have been “formally appointed as ministers of state to assist,” according to
federal records… Source: globalnews.ca/
