Bluesky TeamMinisterial Mandate Letters Released - Dec 13
This morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released the mandate letters for his new Cabinet. These mandate letters will act as a guide for his Ministers to deliver on the promises made during the 2019 federal election. Mandate letters outline the policy objectives that each minister will work to accomplish, as well as the pressing challenges they will address in their role. It should be noted that the mandate letters are not an exhaustive list of all files a minister will work on.
As the mandate letters were made public by Trudeau in 2015, public expectation and scrutiny placed additional onus on the ministers to fulfill the instructions received by the Prime Minister. Each Minister was graded and promoted or demoted based on their ability to meet the demands set out by the Prime Minister. With the changed dynamics of a minority Parliament, it will be interesting to see how rigidly the instructions given to each minister today will be met and how much leeway will be given to ministers in their negotiations with opposition parties.
Chrystia Freeland – Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
Anita Anand – Minister of Public Services & Procurement
Navdeep Bains – Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry
Carolyn Bennett – Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
Marie-Claude Bibeau – Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
Bill Blair – Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Bardish Chagger – Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth
François-Philippe Champagne – Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jean-Yves Duclos – President of Treasury Board
Mona Fortier – Minister of Middle Class Prosperity and Associate Minister of Finance
Marc Garneau – Minister of Transport
Karina Gould – Minister of International Development
Steven Guilbeault – Minister of Canadian Heritage
Patty Hajdu – Minister of Health
Ahmed Hussen – Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
Mélanie Joly – Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages
Bernadette Jordan – Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
David Lametti – Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Dominic LeBlanc – President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada
Diane Lebouthillier – Minister of National Revenue
Lawrence MacAulay – Minister of Veterans Affairs, Associate Minister of National Defence
Catherine McKenna – Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
Marco Mendicino – Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Marc Miller – Minister of Indigenous Services
Maryam Monsef – Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development
Bill Morneau – Minister of Finance
Joyce Murray – Minister of Digital Government
Mary Ng – Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade
Seamus O’Regan – Minister of Natural Resources
Carla Qualtrough – Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion
Pablo Rodriguez – Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Harjit Sajjan – Minister of National Defence
Deb Schulte – Minister of Seniors
Filomena Tassi – Minister of Labour
Dan Vandal – Minister of Northern Affairs
Jonathan Wilkinson – Minister of Environment and Climate Change