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Brampton-West MP Kamal Khera has been named Minister of Health.
Member of Parliament for Brampton-West Kamal Khera has a new gig in newly-sworn-in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet heading up the Ministry of Health.
Carney was officially sworn in as prime minister on Friday following his win in the Liberal leadership race and made a few changes to the previous ministry appointments made under his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.
The new cabinet includes 20 Trudeau-era ministers along with three new faces from the Liberal caucus.
Khera, who was previously the federal minister of diversity, inclusion and persons with disabilities, has been named Minister of Health, while Mississauga-Streetsville MP Rechie Valdez was named Chief Government Whip.
The new cabinet has no replacement for Khera’s old position diversity, inclusion and disabilities minister; a minister of women, gender equality and youth; or a minister of mental health and addictions.
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