Eighteen of Justin Trudeau’s 30 cabinet ministers are rookies who won election for the first time on October 19th, including his finance minister, who is millionaire Toronto businessman Bill Morneau. B-C regional aboriginal chief Jody Wilson-Raybould takes on justice, family doctor Jane Philpott is the new health minister and retired Canadian Forces lieutenant-colonel Harjit Sajjan takes on the defence portfolio. Trudeau was asked how he was going to handle the upcoming climate change summit in Paris when the Liberals have not committed to specific greenhouse gas reduction targets. He didn’t tip his hand.
TAG; Trudeau’s cabinet includes 11 ministers from Ontario, six from Quebec, three from B-C, two each from Alberta and Manitoba and one each from Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, P-E-I and Nunavut. The cabinet is scheduled to hold its first meeting today and is expected to take immediate action to reinstate the long-form census.