Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s new cabinet features 2 familiar Mississauga faces [Video]

The two Mississauga members of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet will remain part of his inner circle.

Mississauga-Centre MPP Natalia Kusendova-Bashta will keep her post as minister of long-term care. Named to that position last June, she previously served as parliamentary assistant to the long-term care minister (and seniors and accessibility minister).

Mississauga-Streetsville MPP Nina Tangri, meanwhile, retains her post as Ontario’s associate minister of small business (as part of the Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade).

The pair of Mississauga MPPs in addition to their colleagues across Ontario, as well as Ford, were sworn in Wednesday afternoon in a 90-minute ceremony at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

Ford said his new team, which consists of many familiar faces from his previous cabinet, “will deliver on the government’s mandate to do whatever is necessary to protect Ontario in the face of tariffs from the United States” while …