Trudeau's got a cabinet to build — and this time, it'll be harder
CBC
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce his new cabinet at some point in October. But he's already made it clear that the number two job in his government is not up for grabs.
"I have asked Chrystia Freeland to continue serving as deputy prime minister and our minister of finance, and she has accepted," Trudeau announced last week at his first extended press conference since the election.
Picking Freeland to stay on in those two roles is a no-brainer, given the importance of continuity on the fiscal and economic fronts as the country continues to navigate its way through the pandemic.
But picking Freeland was also the easy part. Trudeau will have to rebuild the rest of his cabinet while missing some key pieces. And his commitment to a gender-balanced cabinet will be put to the test by the loss of four female cabinet ministers and the need for new regional representation from Nova Scotia and Alberta.
"I will be seeking, as I always do, to ensure that there is a proper regional distribution. That there is a range of skills and diversity around the table," Trudeau said outside a vaccine clinic in Kanata, Ont. "But it's a base starting point that we have gender parity in any cabinet I put together."
Trudeau will have to get to that "base starting point" without Catherine McKenna — who left politics before the election — and Bernadette Jordan, Maryam Monsef and Deb Schulte, who were all defeated on election night.
But replacing them may not be as simple as promoting four female MPs into those roles.
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