Key portfolios for business community to watch as Carney’s cabinet sworn in [Video]

Canada’s business community will be monitoring files across various portfolios after Tuesday’s swearing-in of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet.

Corporate leaders and business associations say their priorities include holding Carney accountable when it comes to his promise of launching nation-building projects, along with hitting the reset button on the energy and environment files.

Here are some of the ministers to watch along with some of the key items on their to-do lists.

François-Philippe Champagne

Champagne maintains his position as minister of finance after taking over the file just ahead of the federal election. He’ll be charged with executing a campaign platform that included roughly $129 billion in new measures that would add to the deficit over the next four years, including a one percentage-point tax cut to the lowest income bracket.

Carney pledged to separate the budget into operating and capital streams, and balance the operating side by 2028-2029, while running …