New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney assigns key role to Mississauga MP [Video]

Mississauga-Streetsville MP Rechie Valdez, who until this morning served in former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet as minister of small business, was named Chief Government Whip on Friday by incoming Prime Minister Mark Carney.

When she was sworn in as minister of small business on July 26, 2023, Valdez became the first Filipina-Canadian cabinet member in the country’s history.

On Friday morning at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Valdez took the oath as Chief Government Whip and looked on as Carney was sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister and nearly two dozen others as cabinet members (see list below).

While, historically, the post of Chief Government Whip in Canada has not been recognized as a cabinet-level position (unless the person holding the post is concurrently named minister without portfolio or minister of state), Valdez is listed in a news release from the Prime Minister’s Office as a member of Carney’s new cabinet.

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