Prime Minister Unveils New Cabinet

Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled a new cabinet, and it includes two British Columbia MP’s.

Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson is the new minister of housing and infrastructure.

He will also be the minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada.

Delta MP Jill McKnight was sworn in yesterday as minister of veterans affairs and associate minister of national defence.

The Prime Minister’s Office said in a release that Canadians elected this new government with a strong mandate to define a new economic and security relationship with the United States, to build a stronger economy, to reduce the cost of living, and to keep our communities safe.

The PMO says the new team ‘will act on this mandate for change with urgency and determination’.

The new government, the release says, will build a new Canadian economy that creates higher-paying careers, raises incomes, and can withstand future shocks.

The government says it will work in collaboration with provinces, territories, and Indigenous Peoples to advance the nation-building investments that will support its core mission of building the strongest economy in the G7.

The new cabinet consists of 28 ministers and 10 secretaries of state who will participate in cabinet or other meetings on policy discussion.

Three of them are from BC: Esquimalt-Saanich-Sook MP Stephanie McLean, Surrey Centre MP Randeep Sarai, and 
Kelowna MP Stephen Fuhr.