Mark Carney aims for smaller cabinet, team planning to drop over a dozen ministers: sources [Video]

Prime minister-designate Mark Carney is aiming for a much leaner cabinet as he prepares to get sworn in on Friday at Rideau Hall. 

Sources with knowledge of plans of Carney’s team say he and some 15 to 20 cabinet members will be sworn in. 

CBC News has agreed not to identify the sources because they were not authorized to speak on the matter publicly.

The sources say many ministers will be switching jobs or losing them entirely. Carney’s team has been contacting them over the last 48 hours, informing them of the changes. 

But key players on the Canada-U.S. relations file, including Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, aren’t expected to be dropped from cabinet. 

The new Liberal leader, who is taking over from outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has promised the transition will be “seamless and it will be quick.”

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