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Major Federal Cabinet Shuffle - July 26, 2023

It began yesterday when news broke that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was going to shuffle his Cabinet along with announcements by a number of MP’s like Carolyn Bennett, Minister for Mental Health and Addictions, would not be running for re-election. 

More than a shuffle, this was a sweeping overhaul.  The government defended this all-encompassing shake-up as a necessary move to address “this difficult time right now for millions of people in Canada and around the world, and making sure we have the best possible team aligned to respond to Canadian’s challenges”. 

Indeed, there are 30 of the 38 ministries are impacted, 7 ministers dropped, some are asking if this might be a signal surrounding the next election?

Here are various lists for Cabinet changes that occurred today:

In Cabinet & Changing Portfolios:

Name

Ministry

Riding

Bill Blair

Defence / Point on NATO

Scarborough Southwest

Anita Anand

Treasury Board

Oakville

Dominc Leblanc

Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs AND Public Safety Safety & Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Beauséjour

Pablo Rodriguez

Transport

Honoré-Mercier

Pascale St-Onge 

Canadian Heritage

Brome—Missisquoi

Mark Holland

Health

Ajax

Sean Fraser

Housing Infrastructure &

communities

 

Central Nova

Lawrence MacAulay 

Agriculture

Cardigan

Jean-Yves Duclos 

Public Service and Procurement

 

Quebec

Gudie Hutchings 

Rural Economic Development & the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

Long Range Mountains

Diane Lebouthillier 

Minister of Fisheries, Oceans & the Canadian Coast Guard

Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine

Harjit Sajjan 

President of the King's Privy Council; Emergency Preparedness & the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada

 

Vancouver South

Carla Qualtrough 

Sport and Physical Activity

Delta

Karina Gould

Government House Leader

Burlington

Ahmed Hussen

International Development

 

York South Weston

Seamus O'Regan

Labour & Seniors

 

St. John's South—Mount Pearl

Ginette Petitpas

Veterans Affairs

 

Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe

Mary Ng

Export Promotion, International Trade & Economic Development / losing Small Business

 

Markam-Thronhill

Jonathan Wilkinson

Energy & Natural Resources.

 

North Vancouver

New to Cabinet:

Name

Ministry

Riding

Arif Virani

Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Parkdale High Park

Soraya Martinez Ferrada

Tourism & the Economic Development Agency of Canada for Quebec Regions.

 

Hochelaga

Gary Anandasangaree

Crown-Indigenous Relations.

Scarborough—Rouge Park

Terry Beech

Citizens' Services

Burnaby North—Seymour

Ya'ara Saks 

Mental Health & Addictions & Associate Minister of Health

York Centre

Jenna Sudds

Families, Children & Social Development. 

 

Kanata—Carleton

Rechie Valdez

Small Business

Mississauga—Streetsville

The Eight who Survived:

Name

Ministry

Chrystia Freeland

Finance

Mélanie Joly

Foreign Affairs

Steven Guilbeault

Environment & Climate Change Minister

François-Philippe Champagne

Innovation, Science & Industry Minister

Patty Hajdu

Services Minister, & Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario

Filomena Tassi

Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario

Dan Vandal

Northern Affairs Minister, also minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada and the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency

Marci Ien

Women and Gender Equality and Youth

Dropped and or Not Running for Re-election:

Name

Dropped

Not Running for Re-Election

David Lametti

X

 

Mona Fortier

X

 

Marco Mendicino

X

X

Helena Jaczek

 

X

Omar Alghabra

 

X

Carolyn Bennett

 

X

Joyce Murray

 

X



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