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By Charles Lefebvre

Cabinet revealed

Trudeau reveals new cabinet ministers

Nov 20, 2019 | 12:22 PM

OTTAWA, ON. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has revealed his newest cabinet ahead of the latest session of Parliament.

Chrystia Freeland, formerly the Minister of Foreign Affairs, will now be the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs during the next session. Freeland has also been named the deputy prime minister.

Francois-Phillippe Champagne will take over as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Catherine McKenna, who served as Environment and Climate Change Minister, will now take over as Minister of Infrastructure and Communities. Jonathan Wilkinson takes over that portfolio.

A few key ministers are not moving from their posts; Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett, Finance Minister Bill Morneau, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay.

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Others are taking on big portfolios; Ahmed Hussen becomes social-development minister, Marco Mendicino the immigration minister, Seamus O’Regan the minister of natural resources, Patty Hajdu the minister of health, and newcomer Marc Miller the minister of Indigenous services.

Winnipeg MP Jim Carr, who was previously the Minister of International Trade Diversification, has been named a special representative for the Prairies to be a voice in cabinet for Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The Liberals were shutout of every riding in Alberta and Saskatchewan during the October election.

Two ministers who remain MPs have been removed from cabinet; Ginette Petitpas Taylor, who was health minister, is now deputy government whip; and Kirsty Duncan, the science and sport minister, becomes deputy leader of the government in the House of Commons.

Including Trudeau, there are 37 members of cabinet, up from 35.

Parliament is scheduled to resume on December 5.

-With Files from the Canadian Press