NEW – Federal: Prime Minister names new cabinet
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On October 26, 2021, Prime Minister Trudeau appointed his new cabinet. Nine new ministers are entering cabinet and 21 returning ministers have been assigned new portfolios.
The new ministers are predominantly from Atlantic Canada, the Greater Toronto Area, and Quebec. There is one MP from Alberta in cabinet as well.
Of interest to CPA members, Chrystia Freeland remains as finance minister and as deputy prime minister, Omar Alghabra stays on as minister of transport and Marie-Claude Bibeau will continue as minister of agriculture.
Steven Guilbeault has been appointed minister of environment and climate change (ECCC). The new minister has a long record particularly in Quebec within the environment movement.
The former minister of environment and climate change, Jonathan Wilkinson, is now the new minister of natural resources. Prior to entering public life, the minister was an executive in the clean tech sector. The minister has made it clear that he does not see his job as promoting traditional energy such as oil and gas. Look for his focus to be on aligning Canada’s energy industry with the government’s environment agenda.
Beginning on November 22, 2021, Parliament is scheduled to sit for four weeks before recessing for Christmas and returning in late January for the winter session. It is also expected that a fall economic statement may be introduced before the Christmas recess.
The CPA has written to the above-mentioned cabinet ministers, requesting meetings to review CPA priorities such as changes to the Canada Greener Homes Grant and the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act.
