Mark Carney’s new cabinet: A look at the ministers who are in and out

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Prime Minister Mark Carney has put together a postelection cabinet filled with both new ministers and familiar faces (albeit several in new roles). His cabinet has 28 ministers and 10 secretaries of state.

Here’s a look at some of the new ministers, those who remained from previous Liberal governments and those who are no longer in cabinet.

Who’s in:

Marjorie Michel

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Marjorie Michel, who represents the Quebec riding of Papineau, is the new Minister of Health. Before being elected an MP in the most recent election, she was a long-time Liberal operative. Her father, Smarck Michel, was the prime minister of Haiti from 1994 to 1995. She was the first Black woman to become a chief of staff at the federal level, where she served former minister Jean-Yves Duclos. Most recently, she was the deputy chief of staff to Mr. Trudeau. She now holds his seat, which she won with 53 per cent of the vote.

Evan Solomon

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Evan Solomon, who represents Toronto Centre, is the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, as well as being responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario.

Mr. Solomon is a new member of Parliament but not new to Parliament Hill. The well-known political broadcaster has hosted CTV’s Power Play and Question Period. He was also the host of CBC’s Power and Politics and CBC Radio’s The House before he was fired in 2015. He was most recently the publisher of GZERO Media and a senior executive at Eurasia Group.

Mandy Gull-Masty

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Mandy Gull-Masty, who represents the northern Quebec riding of Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou, is the new Minister of Indigenous Services.

In 2021, she was elected the first female Grand Chief of the Cree Nation Government in Quebec.

She won her riding with 41.2 per cent of the vote.

Gregor Robertson

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Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson, who represents Vancouver Fraserview – South Burnaby, is the new Minister for Housing and infrastructure. He is also responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada.

Housing is expected to be a key portfolio for Mr. Carney’s government, as the Liberals have promised to double the residential construction rate over the next decade.

While serving as mayor, Mr. Robertson was also a vocal proponent of drug decriminalization.

He won his seat with 52.3 per cent of the vote.

Lena Diab

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Lena Diab, Ottawa’s new immigration minister, is the former chair of the Commons Justice and Human Rights Committee and oversaw hearings last year on antisemitism and Islamophobia on and off university campuses.

The former lawyer, who was born in Halifax to Lebanese immigrants, also lived in Lebanon as a child, returning to Nova Scotia with her family to escape the civil war. She is a former Liberal member of the Nova Scotia Assembly, where she served as the province’s minister of immigration among other roles.

She was elected in 2021 as Liberal MP for Halifax West and has served on a number of parliamentary committees.

Big moves:

Anita Anand

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Anita Anand, who represents the Ontario riding of Oakville East, has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. Previously she was minister of innovation, science and industry and was focused on supporting Canadian industries under threat from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

First elected in 2019, Ms. Anand has also served as minister of defence, president of the Treasury Board and the minister of transport. She rose to prominence as minister of public services and procurement during the pandemic, when she was in charge of ordering vaccines and personal protective equipment.

In January, she said she would not seek re-election, but reversed course the following month after Mr. Carney was elected Liberal leader. She won her seat with 51.1 per cent of the vote.

Mélanie Joly

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Mélanie Joly, who represents the Montreal-area riding of Ahuntsic-Cartierville, has been appointed Minister of Industry. She is also responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions.

She was previously the minister of foreign affairs and international development, one of the leading ministers on the Canada-U.S. relations file.

Ms. Joly was first elected in 2015 and has held a number of cabinet roles, including heritage, economic development and official languages. She is one of the few ministers who has held a portfolio for the entire time since the Liberals formed government in 2015.

Gary Anandasangaree

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Gary Anandasangaree, who represents the Toronto riding of Scarborough-Guildwood- Rouge Park, has been appointed Minister of Public Safety.

He was previously the minister of justice and minister of Crown-Indigenous relations – two portfolios that are once again held by separate people. He had held the Crown-Indigenous relations portfolio since 2023, focused largely on settling land claims with First Nations.

Mr. Anandasangaree was a lawyer before entering politics in 2015. In the 2025 election, he won with 64 per cent of the vote.

Patty Hajdu

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Patty Hajdu, who has served as the minister of Indigenous services since 2021, has been given a new role in Mr. Carney’s government as Minister for Jobs and Families, as well as Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario.

Ms. Hajdu, who left home at 16 owing to struggles within her own family, finished high school while living alone and went on to work in public health and adult literacy and as a graphic designer.

A single mother of two boys who put herself through university, she later ran the largest homeless shelter in Northwestern Ontario.

Known within Parliament for her compassionate approach, she has also served as minister for the status of women, minister of employment, workforce development and labour and minister of health.

David McGuinty

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David McGuinty has been moved to a prominent new role as Minister for National Defence from his previous role as Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.

Soon after being appointed public safety minister, he was thrust into the limelight to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump’s allegation that Canada’s border is not secure. He was heavily involved in government efforts to shore up the shared frontier, including earmarking extra funding for helicopters and drones, while rebutting claims by the White House that Canada is a major source of fentanyl smuggled into the U.S.

Earlier this year, he was among the Canadian ministers to head to Washington, D.C., to reassure the Trump administration that Ottawa was taking border security seriously.

Before entering the cabinet, the Ottawa MP served as the first chair of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) from 2017, and had top secret security clearance. Last year, NSICOP, released a report on foreign interference in Canada’s elections and democratic institutions.

A former environmental lawyer, Mr. McGuinty has represented the Ottawa South riding since 2004.

Sean Fraser

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Sean Fraser, who represents the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova, is the new Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada. Mr. Fraser, who was first elected in 2015, previously held the Housing and Infrastructure portfolio, as well as the Immigration portfolio under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

Mr. Fraser had stepped down as a cabinet minister in December and said he wouldn’t be seeking re-election in order to spend more time with his family. However, he changed his mind in late March. He won his seat with 51.9 per cent of the vote.

Who’s out:

Bill Blair

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Veteran minister Bill Blair has not been reappointed to cabinet. The former Toronto police chief served as minister of national defence since 2023. He has also been minister of border security and organized crime reduction and minister of public safety and emergency preparedness.

Between 2017 and 2018, he was parliamentary secretary to the minister of justice. He was elected MP for Scarborough Southwest in 2015, after serving for four decades in the Toronto Police Service.

Jonathan D. Wilkinson

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Jonathan D. Wilkinson was a long-serving minister in the Liberal government who was minister of energy and natural resources from 2021 to 2025.

The former businessman was among a delegation of ministers to go to Washington earlier this year after Mr. Trump announced his plan to impose tariffs on Canada. Mr. Wilkinson told reporters Canada should consider building a new West-to-East oil pipeline.

He has represented the B.C. riding of North Vancouver-Capilano since the 2015 federal election.

A high-profile member of Mr. Trudeau’s cabinet, he defended the consumer carbon price in the face of Conservative attacks on the policy, which was ditched by Mr. Carney. He was previously minister of fisheries, oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard and minister of environment and climate change from 2019 to 2021.

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith

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Nathaniel Erskine-Smith is no longer in cabinet.

The lawyer, known for his commitment to animal welfare and environmental issues, announced last year that he would not seek re-election in the Beaches-East York seat he has held since 2015.

But he changed his mind and was appointed housing minister by Mr. Trudeau.

Mr. Erskine-Smith ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party in 2023 but lost to front-runner Bonnie Crombie.

He is known for speaking his mind and expressed concern about the government‘s use of the Emergencies Act to clear the truckers’ protest during the pandemic. He hosts the popular Uncommons podcast, whose guests have included Mr. Carney.

Following the cabinet announcement, Mr. Erskine-Smith posted a lengthy thread on X, noting his disappointment at not being able to do more with his “ambitious” housing plan, saying that “It’s impossible not to feel disrespected and the way it played out doesn’t sit right":

Rachel Bendayan

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Rachel Bendayan has not been reappointed immigration minister, a post she was given in March by Mr. Carney.

In December, 2024, Mr. Trudeau appointed her minister of official languages and associate minister of public safety.

Ms. Bendayan, a lawyer, established a legal practice and also taught at the Université de Montréal.

She spoke about her Moroccan-Jewish heritage at a citizenship ceremony she attended as minister earlier this year, and in an interview with The Globe and Mail said she intended to maintain caps on immigration numbers.

She is fluently bilingual and has held the Montreal seat of Outrement since 2019.

Elisabeth Brière

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Elisabeth Brière is no longer minister of veterans affairs, a job she was appointed to in March by Mr. Carney.

In December, she was promoted to cabinet by Mr. Trudeau as minister for the Canada Revenue Agency.

She has been MP for Sherbrooke since 2019 after working as a notary for nearly 30 years, focusing on human rights, real estate and mediation. She also lectured at the Université de Sherbrooke.

Terry Duguid

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Terry Duguid has been removed from his role as minister of environment and climate change, which he was appointed to earlier this year by Mr. Carney. The Winnipeg MP, a keen sports fan, is a former Winnipeg city councillor. In December he was appointed minister for prairies economic development. He is known for his commitment to protecting the environment.

In a statement posted to X following the announcement, he congratulated his successor and wrote he remained “fully committed to serving my constituents, Manitobans and Canadians in the House of Commons.”