Canadian businesses eyeing new cabinet for signs Carney is shifting priorities [Video]

Canada’s business community will be watching Tuesday’s cabinet shuffle closely for signs that Prime Minister Mark Carney will be easier to work with than the last Liberal government.

Business leaders say they want the new prime minister to use his cabinet lineup to extend an olive branch to Western Canada and to back up his claim that he wants to build up Canada’s energy sector and launch nation-building projects.

Matthew Holmes, head of public policy at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said he wants to see business and international experience reflected in the new cabinet after Carney vowed to bring about big changes quickly.

“If he’s going to do that, who has demonstrated the ability to do that in the past and not get bogged down with a …