Mark Carney’s 28 cabinet ministers and 10 secretaries of state – Full list

Prime Minister Mark Carney revealed his new cabinet at a swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall Tuesday morning. The inner circle includes many new faces and just 28 ministers. “Canada’s new Ministry is built to deliver the change Canadians want and deserve,” Carney said in a statement. “Everyone is expected and empowered to show leadership – to bring new ideas, a clear focus, and decisive action to their work.” Carney also announced 10 secretaries of state. Here’s the full list of Carney’s new team.

Mark Carney’s new cabinet has 28 ministers:

Shafqat Ali, President of the Treasury Board
Shafqat Ali will be president of the Treasury Board. It’s his first cabinet post since being elected in Brampton Centre in 2021. He made headlines in 2022 for participating in House of Commons proceedings via Zoom from a washroom stall. He later apologized, calling it a “lapse in judgment.”

Rebecca Alty, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
Rebecca Alty is the new minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations. Alty was mayor of Yellowknife, her hometown, from 2018 to 2025 and a former city councillor there. She is an MP for the Northwest Territories. She was first elected in 2025.

Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Long-time Justin Trudeau cabinet minister Anita Anand is now the minister of foreign affairs. Before the election, she was Canada’s minister of innovation, science and industry. First elected in 2019 in the Ontario riding of Oakville, this will be Anand’s sixth ministerial post. Other portfolios the 57-year-old has led include public services and procurement, national defence, internal trade and transport. She has also served as president of the Treasury Board and receiver general for Canada.

Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety
Gary Anandasangaree was appointed Attorney General and justice minister in Carney’s last cabinet. He was also Crown-Indigenous relations minister, a position he held since December 2024. He will now become public safety minister. He was first elected in 2015 as an MP of Scarborough—Rouge Park, later modified to Scarborough—Guildwood—Rouge Park. Before entering politics, Anandasangaree was a lawyer who specialized in real estate and human rights law.

Rebecca Chartrand, Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
Newly elected Manitoba MP Rebecca Chartrand is Canada’s new minister of northern and arctic affairs and minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency. Before seeking the seat in Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, Chartrand was an Anishinaabe educator, arts educator and leader and CEO of Indigenous Strategy.

François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue
François-Philippe Champagne remains minister of finance from Carney’s previous cabinet. He served in four portfolios — international trade, infrastructure, foreign affairs and industry — under Trudeau. As industry minister, Champagne lured EV and battery manufacturers to invest in Canada. He has been a minister for Saint-Maurice—Champlain since 2015.

Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Fourth-term MP Julie Dabrisin is now Canada’s minister of environment and climate change. The 54-year-old has represented the riding of Toronto—Danforth since 2015 and has held two parliamentary secretary posts since.

Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Veteran MP Sean Fraser was previously housing minister and immigration minister, some of Trudeau’s most important — but also complicated and demanding — files. Fraser left cabinet the same day as Freeland and said he would not seek re-election for family reasons. But he changed his mind after Carney became leader. Before entering politics, Fraser practised human rights law in South Africa and corporate law in Calgary. He has been an MP for Central Nova since 2015.

Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Transport and Internal Trade
Veteran MP Chrystia Freeland has maintained her spot in cabinet as the minister of transport and internal trade, the portfolio Carney tapped her for after he was sworn in. The 56-year-old former journalist won Toronto Centre in a 2013 byelection and became the deputy prime minister to Trudeau following the 2019 election. A few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Freeland became minister of finance, a post she held until a falling out with Trudeau in December.

Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages
Steven Guilbeault was previously minister of identity and culture and the Quebec lieutenant. He has also served in two cabinet posts under Trudeau: climate and Canadian heritage. He represented Laurier—Sainte-Marie since 2019.

Mandy Gull-Masty, Minister of Indigenous Services
Mandy Gull-Masty, is now minister of Indigenous services. She was first elected to represent Abitibi–Baie-James–Nunavik–Eeyou in 2025. She was previously Grand Chief of the Cree National Government.

Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
Patty Hajdu joins the list of former Trudeau cabinet ministers remaining in cabinet, becoming the minister of jobs and famililes. She will also retain responsibility for the Federal Economic Development Agency of Northern Ontario, a position she has held since 2021. Other ministerial appointments included status of women, employment, workforce development and labour. She was health minister during the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hajdu has represented Ontario’s Thunder Bay—Superior North since 2015.

Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
Tim Hodgson previously worked with Carney at Goldman Sachs and later the Bank of Canada, where he served as Carney’s special advisor. Hodgson was CEO of Goldman Sachs Canada from 2005 to 2010. The Markham–Thornhill MP was first elected in 2025.

Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Mélanie Joly, another Trudeau-era cabinet minister, will now oversee the industry portfolio and be the minister responsible for Canada economic development for Quebec regions. The 46-year-old from Montreal was most recently Canada’s minister of foreign affairs, which found her involved in talks with the United States amid an ongoing trade war. Joly has been a cabinet minister since she was elected in the riding of Ahuntsic-Cartierville in 2015. She has also headed Canadian heritage, economic development and official languages, tourism, La Francophonie, international development and the federal economic development initiative for Northern Ontario.

Dominic LeBlanc, President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy
Dominic LeBlanc is now president of the King’s Privy Council for Canada and the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, intergovernmental affairs and “one Canadian economy.” He was previously finance and public safety minister under Trudeau and in charge of international trade in the previous Carney cabinet. He replaced Chrystia Freeland as finance minister in December 2024. He’s a smooth-talker with decades of experience in politics. An Ottawa stalwart, LeBlanc first assumed office in 2000 as the representative of Beauséjour, N.B, a seat he still holds. He attended Harvard Law School and worked as a lawyer before entering politics.

Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement
Long-time Liberal backbencher Joël Lightbound has been appointed the ministries of oversight of government transformation, and public works and procurement. The 37-year-old was first elected in Louis-Hébert in 2015 and has served as a parliamentary secretary on three occasions. Prior to entering politics, Lightbound was a lawyer in the Quebec City area, specializing in employment, labour and human rights law.

Heath MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
Heath MacDonald is now minister of agriculture and agri-food. He has served as an MPP of Prince Edward Island. He was first elected to federal office in 2021 for Malpeque, P.E.I.

Steven MacKinnon, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Steven MacKinnon stays in cabinet, retaining his role as leader of the government in the House of Commons, a role he took on when Karina Gould stepped down to seek the Liberal leadership. Before the election, the 58-year-old was also the minister of employment, workforce development and labour. After being elected in Gatineau, Que., in 2015, he sat as a Trudeau backbencher until becoming chief government whip in 2021. He was then promoted to minister of labour and seniors in 2024.

David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defence
David J. McGuinty now heads national defence. He was previously public safety minister under Carney and Trudeau. McGuinty was involved in discussions with U.S. lawmakers concerning the efforts Ottawa is making to tighten border security, such as through additional surveillance. In Parliament, McGuinty was the first chair for the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, a Canadian intelligence services oversight committee. He is an Ottawa South MP who has held office since 2004 and was briefly opposition house leader under Michael Ignatieff in 2010.

Jill McKnight, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence
Small business owner-turned MP Jill McKnight, elected on April 28, joins cabinet as minister of veterans affairs and associate minister of national defence. The 46-year-old represents the riding of Delta in B.C.

Lena Metlege Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Lena Metlege Diab is now minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship. Diab was a veteran provincial politician in Nova Scotia, serving as minister of justice and provincial secretary from 2013 to 2015. She was minister of immigration from 2013 to 2021, until the year she became an MP for Halifax West.

Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health
Rookie MP Marjorie Michel, who was elected in Trudeau’s former riding of Papineau, is now Canada’s minister of health. She was involved with the Liberal Party of Canada prior to entering politics herself, having most recently served as Trudeau’s deputy chief of staff. She’d previously held the same post for the minister of families, children and social development and the President of the Treasury board. Her background is in social, work, and organizational psychology. She is the daughter of former Haitian prime minister Smarck Michel.

Eleanor Olszewski, Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience and Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada
Eleanor Olszewski took over the Edmonton Centre seat of controversial former MP Randy Boissonnault. She was previously a pharmacist and a lawyer before taking office in 2025. Her website describes her as a CAF veteran and the daughter of a Polish prisoner of war.

Gregor Robertson, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada
Gregor Robertson, former Vancouver mayor and NDP MLA in B.C., will take on two portfolios in his first foray into federal politics: Housing and Infrastructure, and Pacific Economic Development Canada. The 60-year-old represents the newly redistributed riding of Vancouver Fraserview—South Burnaby.

Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade
Maninder Sidhu has held parliamentary secretary positions for the ministers of foreign affairs, international development and of international trade and economic development. He has been a member of several committees including natural resources, infrastructure and trade. The Brampton East MP has held office since 2019.

Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Former CBC and CTV national news broadcaster Evan Solomon will take on two portfolios as he enters politics: artificial intelligence and digital innovation, and responsibility for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario. The 57-year-old won Toronto Centre in 2025.

Joanne Thompson, Minister of Fisheries
Joanne Thompson is keeping the fraught fisheries role, which she’s held since March 2025. She was briefly minister of seniors, a role that was established in 2018, following Trudeau’s final cabinet shuffle. She has served in committees involving finance, operations and sustainable development. She took office in 2021, representing St. John’s East, Nfld. Before that, she was the executive director of a community outreach centre for vulnerable persons.

Rechie Valdez, Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism)
Two-time MP Rechie Valdez will take on the role of minister of women and gender equality, while also holding down one of Carney’s new secretary of state positions, overseeing small business and tourism, both of which had their own ministers under Trudeau. Veldez, 44, was first elected in 2021 and represents the riding of Mississauga—Streetsville.

Carney announced 10 secretaries of state:

Buckley Belanger, Secretary of State (Rural Development)
The lone Liberal MP in Saskatchewan, representing Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, will serve as one of ten secretaries of state. He was previously a three-term mayor of his hometown of Île-à-la-Crosse, from 1988 to 1994, then again in 2024. He was elected to Parliament in 2025.

Stephen Fuhr, Secretary of State (Defence Procurement)
Stephen Fuhr will be taking on defence procurement. The 56-year-old retired air force officer was MP for the B.C. riding of Kelowna (now redistributed to be part of Kelowna—Lake Country) under Trudeau from 2015 to 2019, but lost in 2021. He was re-elected in 2025.

Anna Gainey, Secretary of State (Children and Youth)
Anna Gainey previously served as the president of the Liberal Party from 2014 to 2018. She is the daughter of Hall of Fame Montreal Canadiens forward and general manager Bob Gainey. She took office after winning a by-election in 2023 in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount following a vacancy left by Marc Garneau. She studied international relations at the London School of Economics.

Wayne Long, Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions)
Veteran New Brunswick MP Wayne Long won his Saint John—Kennebecasis riding for the fourth time and will be the secretary of state in charge of the Canada Revenue Agency and financial institutions. The 62-year-old was one of the harshest critics of Trudeau toward the end of his leadership and said he would only seek re-election if Carney won the leadership.

Stephanie McLean, Secretary of State (Seniors)
Stephanie McLean served as an NDP MLA in Alberta from 2016 to 2018 before moving to B.C. McLean is a former lawyer and was elected to represent Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke in 2025.

Nathalie Provost, Secretary of State (Nature)
Canada’s secretary of state for nature will be rookie MP Nathalie Provost, who claimed Quebec’s Châteauguay—Les Jardins-de-Napierville on election night. She is a survivor of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, the deadliest mass murder incident in Canada at the time.

Ruby Sahota, Secretary of State (Combatting Crime)
Ruby Sahota, the Brampton North representative, served as the Chief Government Whip from January to December of 2024. The Toronto native was previously a practising lawyer in the U.S., specializing in commercial law.

Randeep Sarai, Secretary of State (International Development)
Randeep Sarai, a veteran MP who’s been representing Surrey Centre in B.C. since 2015, joins the cabinet as secretary of international development. He once served as chair of the Liberal Party Pacific caucus.

Adam van Koeverden, Secretary of State (Sport)
Adam van Koeverden was a parliamentary secretary since 2023, previously appointed to the minister of environment and climate change and the minister of sport and physical activity. He was first elected to represent Burlington North—Milton West in 2019. He was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2022. He was one of the 313 Canadians banned from entering Russia for his vocal support of Ukraine. Before his foray into politics, Koeverden was a former Olympic gold medalist and world champion canoer. He will serve as secretary of state (sport).

John Zerucelli, Secretary of State (Labour)
Newly elected Etobicoke MP John Zerucelli is the secretary of state (labour), a portfolio that’s historically been led by a minister. In 2016, he was the director of operations for Trudeau.

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