There is something pretty special about Canada’s new Government

“More than 300,000 Jamaicans now live in Canada, most in the province of Ontario and so we look forward to a continued and mutually beneficial relationship with the Liberal Party of Canada, its Government and the people”.

But what roused viewers the most was his answer to a reporter who asked about the reasons for his gender parity promise.

His direct response won him praise both at home and internationally.

“There is going to be a period of slight adjustment in the political world in Canada, because government of Canada is back”, Mr Trudeau said.

Former failed Liberal leader Stephane Dion, who lost an election for the party previously, is the new foreign affairs minister, while Toronto businessman Bill Morneau is the new finance minister. LeBlanc said Trudeau wants a promised middle class tax cut in place January 1.

Three Indian-origin men and one woman are part of the new Cabinet.

THE University of British Columbia on Wednesday congratulated Justin Trudeau, who earned a bachelor of education from UBC in 1998, on becoming Prime Minister of Canada.

Four Sikhs – a big portion of Trudeau’s smaller cabinet – were among the 30 ministers sworn in on Wednesday.

Former journalist and media manager Chrystia Freeland becomes trade minister, the first women in the job since Pat Carney held the post in Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservative government in the 1980s.

Trudeau’s female cabinet appointments include previous Treaty Commissioner and Regional Chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations Jody Wilson-Raybould as justice minister and attorney general, human-rights lawyer Catherine McKenna as environment and climate change minister and prominent academic physician-turned-politican Jane Philpott as health minister.

Harjit Sajjan, a decorated Lt Colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces who is elected as a MP for Vancouver South, is a combat veteran and has served in Bosnia and had three deployments to Kandahar, Afghanistan.

50% of those appointed to Cabinet positions are women. They arrived shortly after Mr Stephen Harper, the outgoing prime minister, formally tendered his resignation.

Newly named Cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc, the leader of the government in the House of Commons, said Parliament will return December 3. The ceremonies have much less pomp and presence than, say, the inauguration of USA presidents.