Mark Carney sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister

Trudeau ministers Steven MacKinnon, Patty Hajdu, Jonathan Wilkinson, Steven Guilbeault, Joanne Thompson, Nate Erskine-Smith and Anita Anand were also spotted heading into the governor general’s residence.

Chrystia Freeland, who resigned from Trudeau’s cabinet in December and ran for the leadership against Carney, also arrived for the ceremony.

The ministers who have been playing key roles in Canada’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war — including Mélanie Joly, François-Philippe Champagne, Dominic LeBlanc and David McGuinty — are expected to be part of Carney’s cabinet, though their roles may change.

Joly, who is in Charlevoix, Que. for the G7 foreign ministers’ summit, will be sworn in later in the day.

A source with knowledge of the move who was not authorized to speak publicly said Gary Anandasangaree, Trudeau’s minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, will be moved to the justice portfolio.

Arif Virani, who was minister of justice and attorney general under Trudeau, is one of eight ministers who do not plan to run in the next election.

Susan Smith, co-founder of Bluesky Strategy Group, said she thinks Carney will try “to signal both stability and a change in economic direction” with his cabinet picks.

Some Trudeau-era ministers will lose their cabinet positions, including Jean-Yves Duclos, who was public services and procurement minister and Trudeau’s Quebec lieutenant.

Carney is scheduled to chair a cabinet meeting today and the new ministers are set to speak with media after the meeting.

by Canadian Press

Mark Carney sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister

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