OTTAWA — Thunder Bay—Superior North MP Patty Hajdu will have a new role in cabinet.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled his first cabinet since being elected to office.
Hajdu, who had been the Minister of Indigenous Services since 2021, will now be the Minister of Jobs and Families. She also will be the minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario, or FedNor.
That marks a return to the FedNor file for Hajdu, which did not have a dedicated minister under Carney's transitional cabinet, formed in March after he succeeded Justin Trudeau as Liberal Party leader and prime minister.
Carney did away with the role of Minister for FedNor at the time, wrapping all regional economic development agencies under a single ministry. It was unclear whether the unified system would be retained in a new cabinet but Tuesday's announcement signals a return to the regional system.
Hajdu has spent the entirety of her time as an MP in cabinet, being named Minister of the Status of Women in 2015, the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour in 2017 and the Minister of Health in 2019 — just in time for the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mandy Gull-Masty, MP for Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou and former Grand Chief of the Cree Nation Government in Quebec, will take over the Indigenous Services portfolio.
Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP Marcus Powlowski was not named to Carney's cabinet.
The new cabinet has 29 members, including the prime minister himself.
Mark Carney — Prime Minister of Canada
Shafqat Ali — President of the Treasury Board
Rebecca Alty — Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
Anita Anand — Minister of Foreign Affairs
Gary Anandasangaree — Minister of Public Safety
François-Philippe Champagne — Minister of Finance and National Revenue
Rebecca Chartrand — Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
Julie Dabrusin — Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Sean Fraser — Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Chrystia Freeland — Minister of Transport and Internal Trade
Steven Guilbeault — Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages
Mandy Gull-Masty — Minister of Indigenous Services
Patty Hajdu — Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
Tim Hodgson — Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
Mélanie Joly — Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
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
Joël Lightbound — Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement
Heath MacDonald — Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
Steven MacKinnon — Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
David J. McGuinty — Minister of National Defence
Jill McKnight — Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence
Lena Metlege Diab — Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Marjorie Michel — Minister of Health
Eleanor Olszewski — Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience and Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada
Gregor Robertson — Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada
Maninder Sidhu — Minister of International Trade
Evan Solomon — Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Joanne Thompson — Minister of Fisheries
Rechie Valdez — Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism)
