Carney unveils new cabinet with fresh faces, drops several veterans

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    >François-Philippe Champagne remains Mr. Carney’s Finance Minister and takes on the additional role of Revenue Minister, a portfolio that had its own minister under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

    >Oakville MP Anita Anand will replace Mélanie Joly as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Joly becomes Industry Minister.

    >Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson joins the cabinet as Minister of Housing.

    >Another high-profile new MP, Tim Hodgson, joins cabinet as Minister of Energy and Natural Resources. The Markham-Thornhill MP is a former head of Goldman Sachs’s Canadian operations and former board chair of Hydro One. He also worked as an adviser to Mr. Carney at the Bank of Canada.

    >In Quebec, new MP Mandy Gull-Masty, the former grand chief of the Grand Council of the Crees, takes on the role of Minister of Indigenous Services.

    >She replaces Patty Hajdu, who becomes Minister of Jobs and Families.

    >Ms. Gull-Masty will be assisted on the Indigenous file by another rookie MP, Rebecca Alty, who is now the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations. Ms. Alty represents the Northwest Territories and is a former mayor of Yellowknife.

    >Some of the other former ministers who have been dropped from cabinet include Rachel Bendayan, Kody Blois, Terry Duguid, Ali Ehsassi, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Jonathan Wilkinson, Élisabeth Brière and Nate Erskine-Smith.

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