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Mark Carney's cabinet has taken shape

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Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled his 28-member cabinet and it's a mix of familiar and new faces from across Canada.
Carney's cabinet is smaller than that of his predecessor — former prime minister Justin Trudeau's government had 35 ministers by the end — and adds 10 secretaries of state, who are essentially junior ministers.
Carney continued with the practice of gender parity in cabinet started by Trudeau in 2015.
Some mainstays of the Trudeau government are also missing from Carney's cabinet. Some portfolios are new or have been split, and some ministers have changed positions.

Some Trudeau ministers go, many stay:
There are 24 new faces on Carney's team, including 13 newly elected members of Parliament.
Of the 28 ministers and 10 secretaries of state, 14 are holdovers from the Trudeau era.
Four ministers — Chrystia Freeland, Patty Hajdu, Mélanie Joly and Dominic LeBlanc — have been in cabinet since the Liberals took power in 2015.
Some notable names from Trudeau's cabinets have not carried over to Carney's team. They include former defence minister Bill Blair, former energy minister Jonathan Wilkinson and former Treasury Board president Ginette Petitpas Taylor.
Anita Anand takes over foreign affairs from Joly, who becomes minister of industry.
David McGuinty, the former public safety minister, takes on the national defence portfolio. Sean Fraser is the new justice minister, leaving the housing portfolio he held in the Trudeau era to former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson.

Mark Carney
Prime Minister of Canada
Shafqat Ali
President of the Treasury Board
Rebecca Alty
Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
Anita Anand
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Gary Anandasangaree
Minister of Public Safety
François-Philippe Champagne
Minister of Finance and National Revenue
Rebecca Chartrand
Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
Julie Dabrusin
Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Sean Fraser
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Chrystia Freeland
Minister of Transport and Internal Trade
Steven Guilbeault
Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages
Mandy Gull-Masty
Minister of Indigenous Services
Patty Hajdu
Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
Tim Hodgson
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
Mélanie Joly
Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Dominic LeBlanc
President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy
Joël Lightbound
Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement
Heath MacDonald
Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
Steven MacKinnon
Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
David J. McGuinty
Minister of National Defence
Jill McKnight
Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence
Lena Metlege Diab
Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Marjorie Michel
Minister of Health
Eleanor Olszewski
Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience and Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada
Gregor Robertson
Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada
Maninder Sidhu
Minister of International Trade
Evan Solomon
Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Joanne Thompson
Minister of Fisheries
Rechie Valdez
Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism)

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