New Canadian Cabinet

[Hatman 🍁]

Just some notes:

David Emerson joins the Conservatives to enter cabinet and Michael Fortier will be appointed (!) to the Senate to serve in cabinet so Montreal gets a cabinet minister.

Cabinet is reduced to 26 members.

Chuck Stahl - Agriculture & Agri-Food
Peter MacKay - Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Foreign Affairs
Bev Oda - Canadian Heritage, Status of Women
Monte Solberg - Citizenship & Immigration
Jean-Pierre Blackburn - Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, Labour
Rona Ambrose - Environment
Jim Flaherty - Finance
Loyola Hearn - Fisheries & Oceans
Tony Celement - Health, Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario
Diane Finley- Human Resources & Social Development
Jim Prentice - Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians
Maxime Bernier - Industry
Josee Verner -  International Cooperation, Official Languages, La Francophonie
David Emerson - International Trade, Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics
Vic Toews - Justice, Attorney General
Rob Nicholson - Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Democratic Reform
Marjory LeBreton - Leader of the Government in the Senate
Gordon O'Connor - National Defence
Carol Skelton - National Revenue, Western Economic Diversification
Gary Lunn - Natural Resources
Stockwell Day - Public Safety
Michael Fortier - Public Works and Government Services
Michael Chong - President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Intergovernmental Affairs, Sport
Lawrence Cannon - Transport, Infrastructure and Communities
John Barid - President of the Treasury Board
Greg Thompson - Veterans Affairs

[Hatman 🍁]

Jim Prentice is more on the moderate side of the party, having voted in favour of Same-sex marriage. I noticed a couple of people in Harper's cabinet are pro SSM.