No Island MPs in Carney’s cabinet, but it does have someone from P.E.I. [Video]

For the first time in many decades, Prince Edward Island does not have an MP serving in a federal cabinet. 

A list of ministers released as Prime Minister Mark Carney was being sworn in did not include any of the province’s four Liberal MPs: Lawrence MacAulay (Cardigan), Sean Casey (Charlottetown), Bobby Morrissey (Egmont) and Heath MacDonald (Malpeque). 

MacAulay had been in the cabinets of former prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Justin Trudeau, but announced last month that he would not be running again when the next federal election is held.

A campaign is likely to be triggered within weeks, with an election date in late April or early May. 

No MPs from Alberta were named to Carney’s cabinet either, though two Liberals represent ridings there: Randy Boissonnault in Edmonton Centre and George Chahal in Calgary Skyview. Saskatchewan also does not have representation; all of its 14 MPs are Conservative. 

Carney had been highly expected to trim his …