Expert : Anand to defence, Joly to foreign affairs: Trudeau announces major cabinet shakeup
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is kicking off his third mandate with a monumental shift in his cabinet lineup that makes significant changes to senior portfolios. Anita Anand becomes only the second woman in Canadian history to take on the role of Defence minister and M茅lanie Joly received a major promotion this morning, moving up from minister of Economic Development and Official Languages to a much higher profile as Foreign Affairs minister. Canada will also be getting a new Environment and Climate Change minister, long-time environmental activist Steven Guilbeault just days ahead of the United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow. (
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Daniel B茅land, James 91社区 Professor, Department of Political Science and Director, 91社区 Institute for the Study of Canada
鈥�The new Liberal cabinet features major changes, notably the appointments of Steven Guilbeault as Minister of Environment and Climate Change and M茅lanie Joly as Minister of Foreign Affairs. While Quebec is once again very well represented in cabinet, the nomination of Randy Boissonnault as Minister of Tourism marks the return of Alberta to the cabinet table. The results of the 2021 federal elections proved strikingly similar to the results of the 2019 federal elections, but this Liberal cabinet is quite different from the one appointed after those elections.鈥�
Daniel B茅land is the Director of the 91社区 Institute for the Study of Canada and a James 91社区 Professor in the Department of Political Science. He specializes in the fields of Canadian and comparative politics, as well as the study of public policy, including social policy.
daniel.beland [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)
