Prime Minister Mark Carney will present his new cabinet on Tuesday after returning to his party to power last month, and some important changes in the front front are expected, since he seeks to rebuild the liberals in his image.
An official at the Prime Minister’s office, who spoke with CBC News about a history, said that approximately half of the ministers who are soon walking along the entrance path to Rideau Hall for the oath ceremony will be new in the cabinet.
The government official said that the cabinet will be on the smallest side, less than 30 members of the full cabinet, but there will also be up to 10 secretaries of state, a long and latent ministerial designation that Carney is reliving.
There will be many new faces around the cabinet table because Carney obtained a mandate of voters to change the government, said the official.
The liberal sources tell CBC News and Radio-Canadá that the Quebec Joël Lightbound parliamentarians, who was first chosen in 2015, and Nathalie Provost, a arms control defender chosen earlier this month, will be among the people who swore on Tuesday, but it is not clear if they will be complete ministers or state secretaries.
The Minister of Transportation, Chrystia Freeland, and Canadian identity minister Steven Guilbeault will remain in the cabinet in some way, the sources said. Jonathan Wilkinson, who currently serves as Minister of Natural Resources, is out.
Carney is building a team to face the president of the United States, Donald Trump and his tariffs and helping to support a hesitant Canadian economy as the country dealt with greater unemployment amid a tremendous commercial uncertainty.
The prime minister is also dealing with some concern in western Canada, since some of the leaders of the region, including Alberta Prime Minister Danielle Smith, urge the Federal Government to be more friendly with their interests, namely, the development of fast monitoring natural resources, after a period of hostility perceived under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Prime Minister Mark Carney hopes that his new cabinet can quickly advance in the many challenges of Canada, especially fighting the tariffs of the United States, the cabinet will be announced on Tuesday.
Carney and his team have been relatively tight about what will come, with the newly chosen prime minister only saying that he will have an “efficient” and “focused” cabinet, which suggests that there will be fewer people in the ministry than in Trudeau. Like its predecessor, Carney promises a gender parity around the table.
In comparison, the last Trudeau Cabinet had 39 ministers, approximately a quarter of the Liberal Caucus, while the Carney’s interim cabinet, announced shortly after assuming the leadership of the party in March, had only 24.
One of the changes that Passoy is expected to announce on Tuesday is a kind of “stepped” cabinet model, with higher ministers responsible for large wallets and then state secretaries that have more junior roles, sources told CBC News.
If promulgated, this could be another deviation of how Trudeau organized his government because all ministers, if they were responsible for finance or small regional development agencies, remained on equal terms.
Less than 30 complete ministers
Carbya is expected to continue with this change because it would allow a central group of higher ministers, namely, those responsible for the main departments, meet frequently and treat the problems of the central government, a more agile agreement so that the new prime minister can do things faster.
However, the government official said that these Secretaries of State will be more than just Junior Ministers: they will provide a dedicated leadership on key issues and priorities and will be invited to the meetings of the Cabinet Committee and the Cabinet for articles related to their responsibilities.
John Manley, former Minister of Finance and Vice Prime Minister under Jean Chrétien, said Carney will have to make some “difficult decisions” if you want to keep the small cabinet and add some new faces.
Some of the ministers that Carney took advantage of only a few weeks ago could be out of the cabinet. He has more potential names to choose from after voters chose 170 liberal parliamentarians to Parliament.
The former Finance Minister of Quebec, Carlos Leitão and Tim Hodgson, an experienced business executive of the Toronto area, could be among the new people who go to the cabinet, said Manley, because they are closely aligned with the pro-company vision and project of Carney for the country.
“There are some people who are now there who have had seats on the table, who are well known to the Canadians, who are not going to cut,” Manley said in an interview.
“You have to make sure your cabinet present a very different face from the one that surrounded Justin Trudeau. He will need to change those high profile positions, the most viewed by Canadians,” he said, referring to finance, justice, industry and foreign affairs.
Manley said there may be some injured feelings and unhappy ministers after this confusion, but Carney has the right to shape the cabinet he wants, especially when he brought the party to victory after the surveys suggested that the liberals were destined for an almost safe defeat under Trudeau.
“If I were him, I would not feel any obligation to name anyone again for a role in which they have barely been for two months,” said Manley. “Everyone is in Parliament today because Mark Carney could change things.”
Lori Turnbull, professor of Political Science at the University of Dalhouseie, says that there will be an overlap between the Trudeau and Carney ministries because the former central banker did not have much time to recruit many own candidates.
While Carney can eliminate conservative statements that it is “just like Justin”, because he has just won a solid minority government, Turnbull said Carney will want to remodel the cabinet to reflect who he is, a leader who has said he will focus on the economy.
“I think you will want to put your own people in the front bank. You will want to have some type of ownership of this cabinet,” Turnbull said in an interview with CBC News
Even so, Turnbull said it is possible that Carney despite experience and continuity by deciding who will fill what roles.
International Trade Minister Dominic Leblanc, who has assumed a leading role in the relations of United Canadá-United States and Ottawa’s treatment with the provinces as an intergovernmental minister of issues, is a person who will probably maintain a job in the cabinet, Turnbull said, because he has developed connections with the Trump administration at this crucial moment.
At least one of the other specialists in the United States, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, will probably also remain, Turnbull said, somehow.
Turnbull said that who is in the cabinet can import less than usual because much of the approach is in Carney, who has promised to do much of heavy work as the current challenges of the country (commercial and economic problems) fall into their timonera.
“I think everything is Carney. The approach is really in him instead of who his ministers are,” Turnbull said.
Turnbull said Carney, the experienced businessman, can also adopt an “CEO” approach to govern, with his cabinet ministers that serve as something like corporate vice presidents, the lieutenants responsible for their respective portfolios and trained to make decisions.
“This type of delegation, if it works well, could lead to great results for the government in general because what you are trying to do, of course, is huge,” he said.
Manley said that decentralizing power will surely help do things faster. He said everything through the Prime Minister’s office, as well as the standard practice under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper and then Trudeau, bogged down things.
“That is the way you do things. You don’t link ministers in bureaucracy and bureaucracy if you want to see that they really make a difference.”
