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Notable faces in Trudeau's cabinet

  • EFN Staff | November 04, 2015

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Former Crown Prosecutor and a previous AFN regional chief Jody Wilson-Raybould has been given the high profile portfolio of Attorney General of Canada and Minister of Justice.

A new 31-person cabinet has been sworn in at Rideau Hall, half of whom are women, two of whom are Indigenous, and all in an attempt of regional representation.

Hunter Tootoo, the MP from Nunavut who beat Conservative incumbent Leona Aglukkaq, is now the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and Canadian Coastguard. Jody Wilson-Raybould, a former regional chief at the AFN and a former Crown Prosecutor from British Columbia, has been given the high profile Cabinet position of Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.

Long-time Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett has been named Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and long-time Saskatchewan Liberal MP Ralph Goodale is the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.

Here are the remaining Cabinet members:

  • Justin Trudeau (Quebec) - Prime Minister, Intergovernmental Affairs and Youth
  • Lawrence MacAulay (P.E.I.) - Agriculture and Agri-Food
  • Stéphane Dion (Quebec) - Foreign Affairs
  • John McCallum (Ontario) - Immigration, Citizenship and Refugees
  • Scott Brison (Nova Scotia) - Treasury Board President
  • Dominic Leblanc (New Brunswick) - Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
  • Navdeep Bains (Ontario) - Innovation, Science and Economic Development
  • Bill Morneau (Ontario) - Finance Minister
  • Judy Foote (Newfoundland and Labrador) - Public Services and Procurement
  • Chrystia Freeland (Ontario) - International Trade
  • Jane Philpott (Ontario) - Health
  • Jean-Yves Duclos (Quebec) - Families, Children and Social Development
  • Marc Garneau (Quebec) - Transport
  • Marie-Claude Bibeau (Quebec) - International Development and La francophonie
  • Jim Carr (Manitoba) - Natural Resources
  • Mélanie Joly (Quebec) - Heritage
  • Diane Lebouthillier (Quebec) - National Revenue
  • Kent Hehr (Alberta) - Veterans Affairs, and Associate Minister of National Defence
  • Catherine McKenna (Ontario) - Environment and Climate Change
  • Harjit Sajjan (B.C.) - National Defence
  • MaryAnn Mihychuk (Manitoba) - Employment Workforce Development and Labour
  • Amarjeet Sohi (Alberta) - Infrastructure and Communities
  • Maryam Monsef (Ontario) - Democratic Institutions
  • Carla Qualtrough (B.C.) - Sport, and Persons with Disabilities
  • Hunter Tootoo (Nunavut) - Fisheries and Oceans, and Canadian Coastguard
  • Kirsty Duncan (Ontario) - Science
  • Patricia Hajdu (Ontario) - Status of Women
  • Bardish Chagger (Ontario) - Small Business and Tourism

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