Federal Cabinet
Announced May 13, 2025
Shafqat Ali, President of the Treasury Board
Rebecca Alty, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety
François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue
Rebecca Chartrand, Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Transport and Internal Trade
Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister Responsible for Official Languages
Mandy Gull-Masty, Minister of Indigenous Services
Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Domenic Leblanc, President for the King’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy
Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement
Heath MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
Steven MacKinnon, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defense
Jill McKnight, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defense
Lena Metlege Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health
Eleanor Olszewski, Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience and Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada
Gregor Robertson, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada
Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade
Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Joanne Thompson, Minister of Fisheries
Rechie Valdez, Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism)
Secretaries of State
Buckley Belanger, Secretary of State (Rural Development)
Stephen Fuhr, Secretary of State (Defense Procurement)
Anna Gainey, Secretary of State (Children and Youth)
Wayne Long, Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions)
Stephanie McLean, Secretary of State (Seniors)
Nathalie Provost, Secretary of State (Nature)
Ruby Sahota, Secretary of State (Combating Crime)
Randeep Sarai, Secretary of State (International Development)
Adam Van Koeverden, Secretary of State (Sport)
John Zerucelli, Secretary of State (Labour)
Insights
A new focus on digital and AI tech. Prime Minister Mark Carney has carved out a Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and put Evan Solomon in the role. During the election campaign, Carney announced his government would invest up to $15,000 per worker in priority sectors to learn how to use AI. The Liberal platform also promised to invest $2.5 billion in digital. Carney's focus on AI is not new. In 2021, he wrote in his book Value(s) that rapidly capitalizing on AI is necessary for the coming digital transformation.
A stronger focus on Arctic sovereignty and northern economic development. Carney put North West Territories MP Rebecca Alty into the role of Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations (as opposed to an MP from a southern part of the country), and also appointed a Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (Rebecca Chartrand) plus a Minister Responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario (Patty Hajdu). This could signal a big focus on resource development, including the Ring of Fire.
Less focus on mental health and addictions. The Minister of Mental Health and Addictions portfolio has been eliminated entirely.
Eliminated portfolios could be contentious. In addition to Mental Health and Addictions, there is no full Minister of Seniors (a secretary of state will take that portfolio instead); no Minister of Democratic Institutions (which could signal the end of decades of talk about electoral reform); and no Minister of Labour. In particular, the elimination of the Minister of Labour portfolio will be contentious with unions and labour organizations, and could contribute to conflict between labour and the new government.
Secretaries of state are back. Carney has appointed secretaries of state, but not parliamentary secretaries. While we don’t know yet how Carney will use or resource secretaries of state, a secretary of state does not sit in cabinet.
