OTTAWA—Prime Minister Mark Carney was sworn in Friday with a slimmer cabinet that contains few new faces.
The former central banker also purged a batch of Trudeau-era ministers and portfolios, signalling renewed focus on the economy and Canada’s relationship with the U.S., as the governing Liberal party makes a rightward shift.
Mark Ramzy is a federal politics reporter in theToronto Star’s Parliament Hill Bureau. Reach him via email:[email protected]
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