Former housing minister Nate Erskine-Smith says it's "impossible not to feel disrespected" after being dropped from cabinet.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a major Cabinet shakeup, including a new foreign minister. He's shaping a newly reelected Liberal government.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled his 28-member cabinet and it’s a mix of familiar and new faces from across Canada. Carney’s cabinet is smaller than that of his predecessor — former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government had 35 ministers by the end — and adds 10 secretaries of state, who are essentially junior ministers.

Newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney tapped Member of Parliament Mandy Gull-Masty, a former chief of the Quebec Crees, for the historic appointment. Gull-Masty, Cree, of Carney’s Liberal Party, won in the northern Quebec riding of Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou, flipping a seat that had previously been won by the Bloc Quebecois.

Mark Carney has restored gender parity in the federal cabinet. But upon closer look, men hold five of the six most powerful positions while only one — foreign affairs — was awarded to a woman, Anita Anand.

As communities across Alberta deal with natural disasters and emergencies, representatives say they are encouraged that an Alberta MP is a part of the new cabinet.

→ Procurement Minister JOËL LIGHTBOUND, first elected in 2015, made headlines in 2022 for pointedly criticizing the federal government’s handling of pandemic comms — which in a tightly disciplined Liberal caucus counted as notable dissent.

Canadian politician Anita Anand has been sworn in as Canada's new foreign minister in a major Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Mark Carney.