Trudeau unveils most diverse Cabinet in Canada’s history

“The more diverse your organization, your board, or, in this case, cabinet, the more it reflects the realities of the population we are serving, and that can only be a good thing”, she said. Numerous female ministers have been given key roles, including former journalist Chrystia Freeland – now in charge of global trade – and Maryam Monsef, who fled Afghanistan as a refugee 20 years ago.

Yahoo Canada News sent email messages to Liberal spokespeople as well as the five MPs who were made ministers of state.

“What needs to change, from a statute perspective is their salaries, so they get the full ministerial salaries, but they have full cabinet privileges around the cabinet table, and they sit on all the cabinet committees as full members of the committee”, Purchase said. Meet Harijit Singh Sajjan, an Indian-born Sikh who is now part of new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s forward-looking cabinet.

Trudeau’s climate moves are, so far, in contrast to the approach of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who rejected any widespread carbon reduction program by saying it would amount to a new tax that would hurt growth. They are scheduled to hold their first meeting in the afternoon and then face the media – a departure from the Harper era.

According to Twitter Canada, the announcement of Sajjan’s welcome into the Cabinet was the most retweeted post of the day. “We are going to work very hard to ensure we have a better future”.

Asked why gender balance was important to him, Trudeau said, “Because it’s 2015”.

Cheering crowds, estimated at 4,000, lined the approach to the Governor General’s residence where the swearing-in ceremony took place as Trudeau threw open the venue to the public. “For the first time since World War II, Britons failed to contribute the largest share of immigrants; they were outnumbered by Italians, 28,564 to 26,622…”

In his swearing ceremony at the Rideau Hall – Canada’s White House, the younger Trudeau gave the cheering Canadians a glimpse of his government, the building of a plan for the making of a strong middle class and making the plan to happen immediately.

“We all knew his father and after a decade of Conservatives in power this is a historic change in government”, said one spectator, Robert Boisvert.