Just after being sworn in, Trudeau announced his Cabinet, a group of ministers divided evenly between men and women.
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Navdeep Bains, who played a key role in Trudeau’s election as the Liberal Party leader in 2013, has been awarded with a cabinet berth.
“We decided, as part of the cabinet process, that there would be no levels of cabinet members, that they were all ministers”, Purchase said.
Canada – newly sworn in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed a positive and optimistic outlook of Canada, its future both at the domestic and foreign fronts.
He was accompanied by his wife and their three young children as well as his mother, Margaret Trudeau, who gave birth to Trudeau and his two brothers while his father Pierre Trudeau was prime minister.
The Cabinet is now gender equal, with 15 of 30 senior ministerial posts being held by women, the Washington Post reported.
Hundreds of supporters came to witness Canada PM Justin Trudeau take his oath at Rideau Hall.
According to UBC political science professor Max Cameron, Trudeau’s decision to include a number of political rookies speaks to his campaign promise of change in Ottawa, but it won’t be without a few bumps in the road.
First he made the global headlines when he was declared Canada’s Prime Minister.
His cabinet was seen as an inclusive one and a change from the past, where men have always dominated the most.
Former Canadian Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh, said, “The appointment of four Indo-Canadians to the cabinet is another big step in the community’s history in Canada”.
Sajjan, a former lieutenant-colonel and combat veteran with Canadian Armed Forces, and a former detective constable with Vancouver Police Department, was named Minister of National Defence. Trudeau has said improved environmental performance is critical for the approval of projects such as TransCanada Corp.’s proposed Energy East pipeline, though how he intends to proceed remains unclear.
Other women in cabinet include longtime MP Carolyn Bennett as minister of indigenous and northern affairs and former Manitoba politician and geoscientist MaryAnn Mihychuk as employment, workforce development and labour minister.
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John McCallum (PhD’77) is the new minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship; Jim Carr (BA’79) is the minister of natural resources; and Catherine McKenna (LLB’99) is the minister of environment and climate change.
