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Prime Minister Carney to announce major cabinet shakeup Tuesday with many new faces going in​

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CBC is reporting Carney will tap Gregor Robertson to head the housing file. He was Vancouver mayor for 10 years so he's got good experience, but not sure the mayor of one of the world's most expensive housing markets is a great fit here. Doesn't inspire much confidence.

They are also reporting he'll name Tim Hodgson as minister of natural resources and energy. Hodgson is clearly close with Carney, having worked with him at Goldman Sachs and was his special advisor at the bank of Canada, so it's an early indicator of how highly he will be prioritizing the construction of energy infrastructure.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-cabinet-revealed-today-1.7532951
 
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Northern Light said:
LOL, She will be looked after just fine.............
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The LOL is unwarranted, nothing I wrote was funny, more sad. But I agree, she’ll be looked after. Reports are that half of Trudeau’s cabinet will remain as ministers. I just hope Carney has the sense to keep Freeland away from international trade, foreign affairs or anything US related. Leave her in interprovincial trade and transport.
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She did the country and her party a service.
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Agreed, as I wrote above. But if she’ll do it once, she’ll do it again if provoked. Not matter their personal relationship the PM should be wary.
guavadelic said:
CBC is reporting Carney will tap Gregor Robertson to head the housing file. He was Vancouver mayor for 10 years so he's got good experience, but not sure the mayor of one of the world's most expensive housing markets is a great fit here.
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And a mayor that perpetuated that city’s surrendering the downtown eastside to vagrants, squatters, junkies and dealers. The rule of law only works if you don’t turn a blind eye when faced with difficult circumstances and decisions.
 
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The LOL is unwarranted, nothing I wrote was funny, more sad. But I agree, she’ll be looked after. Reports are that half of Trudeau’s cabinet will remain as ministers. I just hope Carney has the sense to keep Freeland away from international trade, foreign affairs or anything US related. Leave her in interprovincial trade and transport.

Agreed, as I wrote above. But if she’ll do it once, she’ll do it again if provoked. Not matter their personal relationship the PM should be wary.
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There is, or should be, a difference between loyalty and accountability. There were no doubt behind the scenes talks between Trudeau and others regarding the future of the party and government that were going nowhere.

The Prime Minister is supposed to be accountable to the Cabinet and members, not the other way around. We need to move away from a system where MPs are mere sycophants or courtiers to the PMO.
 

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Toronto MP Evan Solomon will have a new role: minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation. Maybe he'll use his connections to sell digital artwork as NFTs.

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Just kidding, I hope my MP does well in the new role.
 
Full Cabinet listing below, a lot of change, more than expected.

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Notable Drops: Nate Erskine Smith, Bill Blair, and Jonathan Wilkinson

Notable Moves - Anita Anand - Foreign Affairs, David McGuinty Defense, Melanie Joly - Minister of Industry.

Notable additions, Evan Solomon - Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, Gregor Robertson - Housing and Infrastructure, Lena Metlege Diab - Immigration, Marjory Michel - Health and Tim Hodgson - Energy (Carney protege/associate)

Notable return - Sean Fraser - Justice.
 
Additional Cabinet observations:

Senior/Inner Cabinet is roughly gender equal.

Depending on who you want to include, ~8 visible minority full ministers. out of 28 (29 when one adds the PM back into the mix) (almost exactly proportional to the population at large, just a smidge over)
 
Carlos Leitao, the well regarded former Quebec finance minister, not being named to cabinet is pretty surprising. He was regularly the first name out of commentators mouths regarding the new faces joining cabinet, and was widely tapped to be finance minister.

On a separate note, Champagne seemed to thrive heading up the Industry file so leaving him in Finance seems a bit of an underutilization. Especially considering that Carney is expected to largely be his own finance minister.

Overall, most of the high profile posts went to former Trudeau ministers. Tim Hodgson in Energy seems to be most significant departure.
 
Admiral Beez said:

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Just kidding, I hope my MP does well in the new role.
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A bullshit portfolio for a bullshit MP.

Toronto Centre deserves better than these parachuted “star” candidates.
 
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Disappointing to see my MP (Erskine-Smith) dropped from cabinet, although he was only in for 4½ months. And Dabrusin going in is surprising. Anyway, we'll see how this goes
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My MP Bill Blair also got dropped but I see that as a good thing. He was ok but I recently felt like he was a one trick pony who overstayed his welcome.

He is good in Justice related portfolios or possibly Defence but that is about it.
 
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Agreed. NES seemed pretty effective in his short stint so its a bit surprising to see him tossed aside completely.
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I like Nate, I've found him to be a keen policy wonk and happy to chat w/others who are as well.

He also was an early endorser of Carney and agreed to run again...........after being prepared not to......

I assume he'll be offered something by way of an exit in due course; with a minority, they won't want him to exit too soon..........
 
PL1 said:
Disappointing to see my MP (Erskine-Smith) dropped from cabinet, although he was only in for 4½ months. And Dabrusin going in is surprising. Anyway, we'll see how this goes
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Yes, both were a surprise. I didn't foresee Soloman and Dabrusin as Ministers over Erskine-Smith.
 
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Yes, both were a surprise. I didn't foresee Soloman and Dabrusin as Ministers over Erskine-Smith.
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Soloman is tight with Carney, they've known each other a long time.

So it was a near certainty to me that he would be in........

But Dabrusin was a surprise.
 
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