Carney’s cabinet: a familiar mix of quotas, duplication and pork-barrel politics
The rest – the vast majority of the more than 1,000 ministers to have served in the federal cabinet over the years – come and go without a trace. Their usefulness to the prime minister ceased with their appointment
By News on the Net -- THE GLOBE AND MAIL—— Bio and Archives--May 16, 2025
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have been had.
Cast your mind back two months, to March 14. On that day, just five days after he had won the Liberal leadership, Mark Carney was sworn in as Prime Minister, at the same time appointing a new cabinet. The air was thick with talk of “new realities” and “existential crises.”
In
keeping with the tone of seriousness the Prime Minister was anxious to
cultivate, the new cabinet was sharply reduced in size, from the 39
ministers it had averaged in Justin Trudeau’s last government to just 24
– the smallest it had been in decades. ---More...
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