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Prime Minister Mark Carney sat down with his new cabinet for the first time Wednesday morning.
It comes after he shook up his cabinet a day earlier, moving some key players into new positions and promoting 24 new faces in a move meant to signal change at the top.
Carney shook up his cabinet Tuesday by moving some key players into new positions and promoting 24 new faces in a move meant to signal change at the top.
While some members of his team were prominent figures in former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government — including Dominic LeBlanc, Mélanie Joly, Chrystia Freeland and François-Philippe Champagne — Carney froze out other prominent members of his predecessor’s cabinet.
Carney named 28 full ministers to his cabinet and also appointed a second tier of 10 secretaries of state.
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The prime minister has dropped several cabinet veterans from the Trudeau years, including former natural resources minister Jonathan Wilkinson …
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