A complete list of Trudeau’s 2nd gender-balanced cabinet
A complete list of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority government cabinet picks, who were sworn in at Rideau Hall in Ottawa Wednesday.
A complete list of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority government cabinet picks, who were sworn in at Rideau Hall in Ottawa Wednesday.

As the country faces serious challenges at home and abroad, the proof will be in the pudding for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority government cabinet picks, who were sworn in at Rideau Hall in Ottawa Wednesday.
To address growing discontent in the West, whose voters denied Liberals seats in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Trudeau has tapped Winnipeg MP and former Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr to serve as “special representative to the Prairies.”
While Bill Morneau stays in his Finance portfolio, Catherine McKenna has been shuffled out of the Environment and will take on the role of Minister of Infrastructure.
Chrystia Freeland was also shuffled from Foreign Affairs and will now serve as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Québec MP and former Infrastructure minister François-Philippe Champagne assumes Freeland’s portfolio as minister of Foreign Affairs.
Other notables include Ottawa-Vanier MP Mona Fortier’s cabinet posting to a new portfolio: Minister of Middle Class and Prosperity.
And the Ministry of Democratic Institutions appears to have gone the way of the dodo and its previous minister Karina Gould, shuffled to International Development.
The following is the new “gender-balanced” cabinet of 36 ministers in alphabetical order, as issued by the Prime Minister’s Office today:
Anita Anand becomes Minister of Public Services and Procurement Navdeep Bains becomes Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Carolyn Bennett remains Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Marie-Claude Bibeau remains Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Bill Blair becomes Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Bardish Chagger becomes Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth Jean-Yves Duclos becomes President of the Treasury Board Mona Fortier becomes Minister of Middle-Class Prosperity and Associate Minister of Finance Marc Garneau remains Minister of Transport Karina Gould becomes Minister of International Development Steven Guilbeault becomes Minister of Canadian Heritage Patty Hajdu becomes Minister of Health Ahmed Hussen becomes Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Mélanie Joly becomes Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages Bernadette Jordan becomes Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard David Lametti remains Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Dominic LeBlanc becomes President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada Diane Lebouthillier remains Minister of National Revenue Lawrence MacAulay remains Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence Catherine McKenna becomes Minister of Infrastructure and Communities Marco E. L. Mendicino becomes Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller becomes Minister of Indigenous Services Maryam Monsef becomes Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development Bill Morneau remains Minister of Finance Joyce Murray becomes Minister of Digital Government Mary Ng becomes Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade Seamus O’Regan becomes Minister of Natural Resources Carla Qualtrough becomes Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Pablo Rodriguez becomes Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and the party’s Québec Lieutenant Harjit Sajjan remains Minister of National Defence Deb Schulte becomes Minister of Seniors Filomena Tassi becomes Minister of Labour Dan Vandal becomes Minister of Northern Affairs Jonathan Wilkinson becomes Minister of Environment and Climate Change Kirsty Duncan will serve as Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons Mark Holland will serve as Chief Government Whip Ginette Petitpas Taylor will serve as Deputy Government Whip Kevin Lamoureux will serve as Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
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