Carney names new Cabinet.

May 13, 2025 00:51:54
Carney names new Cabinet.
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Carney names new Cabinet.

May 13 2025 | 00:51:54

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In today’s News Takeaway, Vijay Saini and Vasu Kumar break down Prime Minister Carney’s newly announced Cabinet — who’s in, who’s out, and what it means for Canada’s political future.

From key ministerial shifts to the political signals behind the appointments, the hosts offer insight into how this reshuffle could shape national policy, regional priorities, and upcoming elections.

Tune in for a sharp, early-morning briefing that makes sense of Canadian politics—fast.

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[00:00:02] Speaker A: And now new stick away. [00:00:31] Speaker B: Connect a news takeaway segment Good morning, Vijay. [00:00:39] Speaker A: Good morning. Connect now Connect. [00:00:53] Speaker B: In the next few minutes already Governor General Mary Simandi Swearing in ceremony before we get into two layered cabinet Senior Ministers the Parliamentary Secretaries. [00:01:36] Speaker A: Secretaries of State Secretaries of State Ministers of State Secretaries of State the Cabinet Mantri up to 30 is cabinet plus on top of that Thus Secretaries of State Junior Ministers Minister of State Secretary of State. [00:02:16] Speaker B: From Surrey. [00:02:19] Speaker A: Most likely he will be a junior minister Secretary of State Most likely Jill McKnight Gregor Robertson Housing the infrastructure the portfolio. [00:02:44] Speaker B: Justice Minister and Attorney General Conflicting report later in the day Report so most likely Transport Ministry. [00:03:23] Speaker A: Most likely Transport the internal Trade the ministry so transitional cabinet Minister including himself so Bill Blair Defense Minister so Treasury Board the President's son Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson as you mentioned Natural Resources Minister Statement we post Cabinet which Agriculture Minister Nate Erskine Smith Housing Minister. [00:04:20] Speaker B: Decision he was one of those members as well? [00:04:22] Speaker A: Yes Transitional Cabinet Housing Minister Procurement Minister Son House leader son Rachel Bandayan Immigration Minister Transition. [00:05:25] Speaker B: So that would be more than 50% secretaries of state Secretaries of Secretaries of state up to 10. Up to 10 secretaries of state that's a total of 39. This is more than that Kyoki Odana Reset Karninu Showcase Karna Zuri. [00:06:08] Speaker A: MP Jinan Long. [00:06:25] Speaker B: It will be interesting to see that remains to be seen. [00:07:03] Speaker A: Regional representation Most likely Junior Minister Hong Kamal Khara so Health Minister so Brampton Brampton in all likelihood he's going to be a. [00:07:47] Speaker B: Junior minister Secretary of State full fledged ministry so let's see we're still waiting. So let's see Member of Parliament the base salary on top of this so junior minister the salary with a 74,700 top up while we wait for this Judicial recounts total char riding riding over the weekend Flip. [00:10:23] Speaker A: We are gathering facts Elections Canada in that case. [00:11:31] Speaker B: It'S almost like film so. [00:11:52] Speaker A: Best case scenario Liberals Best case scenario yes we should at least strive for that press conference. [00:13:29] Speaker B: So. [00:13:29] Speaker A: Everybody was in Ottawa so what could be possible excuse for that. [00:13:47] Speaker B: Governor General Mary Simon. [00:13:58] Speaker A: Then it's fine But Tara meant late 18 minutes is a lot of time. [00:14:13] Speaker B: Should Cabinet. [00:14:48] Speaker A: The Galkarni faith ceremonies. [00:15:31] Speaker B: EV Manufacturing Electric vehicles Ontario. [00:16:10] Speaker A: Billion dollar the tax credits promised Ontario direct indirect supports promise so total factory Lao total project Pandram billion. [00:16:59] Speaker B: Overall strategy this is not the only plant only project Canada which electric vehicles the supply chain electric vehicles manufacture F150 pickup truck so that gas powered vehicles. [00:17:41] Speaker A: Ontario shifts cancel manufacturing capacity or us move yes. [00:18:12] Speaker B: So what does that mean? [00:18:13] Speaker A: So yeah capacity manufacturing capacity in a Shift car in the USC expansion EV battery plants vehicle assembly plant the battery parts so project. [00:18:43] Speaker B: Honda Electric vehicles already Ontario they profit numbers Honda the overall financial year March President Donald Trump. [00:19:33] Speaker A: Billion dollar profit Canada Mexico that's because of the tariffs on vehicles from Canada and Mexico financial year so Francois Philippe Champagne Finance Minister Hong Melanie Jolie Foreign Affairs Minister. [00:20:27] Speaker B: She'S been dropped Melanie Jolie New Economic Development Minister Foreign affairs portfolio. [00:20:38] Speaker A: Oh. [00:20:39] Speaker B: So Foreign affairs the portfolio Melanie Jolinu Economic Development the Ministry. [00:20:59] Speaker A: Francois Philippe Champagne Finance Minister. [00:21:05] Speaker B: So multiple files Secretaries of State. [00:21:14] Speaker A: Specific file within that Ministry. [00:21:19] Speaker B: Secretaries of State Secretaries of State depending on meeting which Kikuyu discussed. [00:21:35] Speaker A: Industry Minister Honda Valley plans to postpone Karani the of Industry Minister. [00:21:50] Speaker B: Leave Champagne Industry Minister in. [00:21:52] Speaker A: The Trudeau Cabinet Gregor Robertson Housing Minister. [00:21:57] Speaker B: Gregor Robertson Anita Anandu Foreign affairs Ministry Dominic LeBlanc Intergovernmental Affairs Canada the One Economy Interprovincial Trade Barriers of Intergovernmental Affairs. [00:22:37] Speaker A: Canada U.S. relations so Intergovernmental Affairs Minister. [00:22:43] Speaker B: Canada U.S. relations Canada's One Economy portfolio. [00:22:55] Speaker A: Yeah so Holly Holly Kar Kivor boss details Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson Tim Hodgson Natural Resources Minister important natural resource extraction fast track projects so Tim Hodgson Pella Goldman Sachs the Bank of Canada which. [00:23:37] Speaker B: 28 ministers secretaries of State Randeep Saranu Secretary of State for International Development International Development the ministry A portfolio so. [00:23:59] Speaker A: International Trade Ministry so Minister of International Trade Hong Meninder Sidhu did a Brampton east so O Hong Minister of International Trade Secretary of State for International Development. [00:24:19] Speaker B: International Trade Ministry specifically or Dominic LeBlanc yes the trade with the US Dominic LeBlanc president of the King's Privy Council for Canada Minister responsible for Canada U S Trade Intergovernmental affairs and one Canadian economy. [00:25:03] Speaker A: Transitional Cabinet so that means we have a new Minister of Immigration so Halifax west no MP so Lena Diab Huname Immigration Minister so immigration listeners David McGinty Public Safety Minister Son Unanuhon Minister of National Defense so Defense Minister Bill Blair is out of the cabinet David. [00:25:31] Speaker B: McGinty which lately responsibilities Public Safety Minister of Transport Internal Trade Dominic LeBlanc One Canadian Economy the Intergovernmental affairs the One Canadian Economy the internal trade within the country trade so Minister of Energy and Natural Resources I think Stephen McKinnon leader of the Government in the House of Commons. [00:26:31] Speaker A: President of the Treasury Board Justice Minister Minister of public safety David McGinty son David McGinty one get defense minister public Safety Minister. [00:26:58] Speaker B: Evan Solomon broadcaster Toronto Central to election Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario. [00:27:19] Speaker A: Justice Minister, the Attorney General of Canada. Plus una new Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. Atlantic. Patty Haidu, Minister of Jobs. So Patty Haidu, Health Minister. Yeah. So Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario, Tim Hodgson. Jonathan Wilkinson, Natural Resources Minister, Goldman Sachs. The bank of Canada. [00:28:16] Speaker B: Like we mentioned before, International Development. Their Secretary of State Junior Ministry, Full fledged ministry J British Columbia. Robertson, Housing Ministry. Judy. [00:28:37] Speaker A: Secretary of Jill McKnight. So Delta Jill McKnight, Minister of Veterans affairs and Associate Minister of National Defense. So Ekoga Minister. Ekoga, Secretary of State Junior Minister. Yeah. Minister of State, Associate Minister. [00:28:56] Speaker B: Secretaries of State spending target reach Karna, procurement specialist. Secretary of State for Defense Procurement. Stephen for her. So junior ministry, full fledged minister Gregor Robertson, Jill McKnight though secretaries of State, International Development, Defense Procurement. [00:29:51] Speaker A: Polytechnic, Mass shooting. The survivor anti gun lobbyist pronounced so in a Nuhona secret tree of State for Nature. Nature? [00:30:08] Speaker B: Nature of what? [00:30:09] Speaker A: So climate, environment. Sorry. Secretary of State for CRA and Financial Institution. [00:30:26] Speaker B: Junior Minister Wayne Long. [00:30:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:38] Speaker B: Gun control. Combating crime, Brampton North Clayton. Combating crime. The portfolio. [00:30:56] Speaker A: Yeah. So Jesse Brampton, Ruby Sohota, Secretary of State Junior Minister Junior Minister. [00:31:27] Speaker B: From White Rock. So Bruce Fanjoy, Cabinet. [00:31:48] Speaker A: Minister. See but a controversial minister Cultural identity. The Minister of Nayasi Apnea Transitional Cabinet Fair Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for official languages. [00:32:16] Speaker B: Finance Minister, bank of Canada, the Board of Governors bank of Canada, the Board of Board of Directors. Just because of his provincial experience as a Finance Minister. Deserving candidates. [00:32:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. So Vijay, Minister of Health. So Minister of Health Marjorie Michelle. So a Minister of Health Hong Edmonton Center A Nave Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience and Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada Hong Kong. So Emergency Preparedness Minister. Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience Plus Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Northern Ontario, the economic Development. Gregor Robertson, Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada Davi portfolio Minister of Housing and Infrastructure. So housing with the infrastructure. Plus on top of that he is Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada. [00:34:08] Speaker B: And I believe Pacific, which BC the Yukon Pacific. So that's probably the only one. Yeah. So David McEntee, new Minister of National Defense. Secretary of State for Nature Combating Crime. Secretary of State for Combating Crime. So Defense procurement. [00:35:08] Speaker A: Overall Public safety Ministry specific file Combating crime. Secretaries of State, Junior Ministers. They will be placed within the ministries on a specific file for Rural Development. So Secretary of State for Rural Development total overall cabinet. So can the Matlab regional Jada Imbalance. [00:36:49] Speaker B: Behind the scenes Chief of Staff during the leadership campaign Chief of Staff. He's a very intelligent man, but he's not a politician. House of Commons. Speech from the throne. House of Commons. So JD House of Commons. Leader of the official Opposition. Within the team. [00:38:41] Speaker A: So Edmonton center. Eleanor Olzewski. The Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience. Plus Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development. She's not an mp. So private business run. Kard was not in the fray. [00:39:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:43] Speaker A: Mp. Sorry, Minister. [00:39:49] Speaker B: And he said. [00:39:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Secretary of State for International Trade. International Development. [00:40:05] Speaker B: International Development. [00:40:06] Speaker A: Development. [00:40:07] Speaker B: Yeah. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Canada. The foreign policy. Melanie Jolie. Before this cabinet reshuffle. Over a period of time, she grew into the job. Melanie Jolie did fairly well. [00:41:11] Speaker A: Foreign Affairs Minister. I think we can talk about it. She was always in the good books of Justin Trudeau. [00:41:27] Speaker B: Yes. [00:41:27] Speaker A: Justin Trudeau. Melanie Jolie, Foreign Affairs Minister. That's setting the bar. She was always in the good books of Justin Trudeau. [00:42:20] Speaker B: I agree with that. [00:42:35] Speaker A: Foreign Affairs Minister. Because she was representing Canada. She is a good minister. I cannot think of anything. [00:43:02] Speaker B: It was not an easy ministry to handle anything. [00:43:15] Speaker A: Funding relationship. [00:43:28] Speaker B: Christia Freeland. There was one person he used the word. She was terrible. That was Donald Trump's terrible person. She was a terrible person. Transportation Ministry, especially Aviation sector. [00:44:06] Speaker A: So Transport, internal trade. Ontario Domestic interprovincial trade barriers petition. Finance Minister. Electorally. [00:45:09] Speaker B: Justin Trudeau. Finance Ministry. Finance Minister was the astronaut. Bill Morno was the Transport Minister. Transport Minister. Yes. So Batar Minister. Finance Minister. Free Trade Agreement. So I think Performance. [00:46:46] Speaker A: Ministry. Minister of Transport. So transitional cabinet announced. Minister of Transport Minister responsible for internal trade. Montreal. Starting with Nova Scotia legislation like internal Christia. Finland will retain her portfolio. Transport, internal trade. Finance Minister. Yes, and for valid reasons. [00:47:49] Speaker B: And for valid reasons too. [00:47:53] Speaker A: This is from Bob. [00:48:12] Speaker B: I think election campaign signs. [00:48:24] Speaker A: MP Banisha. [00:48:35] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:48:37] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:49:00] Speaker B: I remember you said we bread. [00:49:01] Speaker A: So bread. [00:49:35] Speaker B: I think we finish it in about 10 days. [00:49:37] Speaker A: 10 days. [00:49:42] Speaker B: Best before date. Freeze. Yeah, right. [00:50:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:16] Speaker B: To see Ankarona. [00:50:31] Speaker A: Thank you, Vijay. [00:50:32] Speaker B: Have a good day. This is handy. [00:50:35] Speaker A: Handy, handy. What's our message? Suggestions? Can they sour dough from cobs is the best. [00:51:05] Speaker B: Like this. There is a specific. There is a specific bag. No pain, no gain. No pain. No pain. [00:51:51] Speaker A: Thank you very much, Vijay. [00:51:52] Speaker B: Take care. Have a good day. [00:51:53] Speaker A: You too.

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