Carney’s cabinet: a familiar mix of quotas, duplication and pork-barrel politics

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...