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Here’s how the 24th Prime Minister of Canada’s first cabinet shaped out.

Eight GTA MPs, just one in B.C.

Carney’s first cabinet was much leaner than Justin Trudeau’s last cabinet, trimmed to just 23 ministers from 37, in addition to the prime minister. Making those calculations has left several regions of the country without a minister.

While there are eight ministers in Carney’s cabinet from the Greater ɫɫ�� Area and only one from B.C., there are only two ministers in the cabinet from anywhere west of Ontario.

Alberta, Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island are all unrepresented. Carney said a smaller cabinet leads to fewer ministers from some regions, but that his cabinet has Western Canada connections, pointing out both he and Chrystia Freeland, who returns to cabinet as transport minister, are from Alberta.

“The cabinet is much smaller because it’s focused on the issues that are most important to Canadians,” he said. “People get classified in a way that limits the breadth of their experience. I could give you many examples of the pan-Canadian nature of this cabinet.”

A slimmer cabinet��

A total of 17 MPs from Trudeau’s final cabinet were left off Carney’s team, and former leadership rival Karina Gould was also passed over.

That exodus includes eight ministers who recently announced they would not be re-offering in the next election, but also several who had endorsed Freeland in the race to succeed Trudeau and a few others.

Among the Freeland supporters now out of cabinet are ɫɫ�� MP Ahmed Hussen, who held various cabinet roles over the years, B.C’s Terry Beech and ex-health minister Mark Holland.

A group of others — including former immigration minister Marc Miller, a longtime friend of Justin Trudeau, York Centre MP and former mental health minister Ya’ara Saks, former families minister Jenna Sudds, and Jean-Yves Duclos, an economist like Carney and the former procurement minister and Quebec lieutenant — are also gone.

Brampton’s Ruby Sahota and Nova Scotia’s Darren Fisher are also out of cabinet after just three months.

In what appears to be a shift away from Trudeau’s socially progressive focus in favour of an emphasis on the economy, Carney no longer has ministerial portfolios dedicated to women, gender equality and youth, disabilities, diversity and mental health. There are also more men than women in the cabinet, a break from Trudeau’s “because it’s 2015” gender parity pledge.

Many familiar faces��

As Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was quick to point out, the Carney era has borrowed a lot of people from Trudeau’s cabinet.

“Today, Liberals are trying to trick Canadians into electing them for a fourth term in power with a cabinet that is 87 per cent the same as Trudeau’s cabinet,” Poilievre said at a press conference Friday afternoon.

Not including Carney, there are three new faces and plenty of ministers have the exact same roles they had before Carney was sworn in.

As Canada continues to grapple with the Trump presidency, Mélanie Joly remains at foreign affairs, Bill Blair is still the defence minister and David McGuinty stays at public safety.

Other ministers remaining in their files include: Jonathan Wilkinson at natural resources, Patty Hajdu at Indigenous services, Ginette Petitpas Taylor at Treasury Board and Nate Erskine-Smith at housing.

The balance of this new cabinet includes people switching jobs. Dominic LeBlanc moves from finance to international trade and intergovernmental affairs. François-Philippe Champagne becomes finance minister and his former industry post is taken by Anita Anand.

“Today is a new era of fiscal responsibility in our country. As Prime Minister Carney said, we’ll invest more. We’ll be very fiscally prudent. We’re going to build the country of tomorrow,” Champagne said ahead of the new cabinet’s first meeting.��

Steven Guilbeault leaves the environment portfolio for a new post — Canadian culture and identity — while Manitoba MP and former minister of sport Terry Duguid moves into the environment job. Former disabilities minister and major party fundraiser Kamal Khera becomes health minister.

Gary Anandasangaree adds justice to his existing portfolio, which includes Crown-Indigenous relations and northern affairs. Rechie Valdez is in cabinet as the government’s whip, losing her post as small business minister.

Steve MacKinnon, who was labour minister, will now be known as the minister of jobs and families, in a move that drew the ire of NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, who declared it sends the message that “unions don’t matter.” Meanwhile, Rachel Bendayan takes over at immigration, Élisabeth Brière will be minister for both veterans affairs and the Canada Revenue Agency, and Joanne Thompson, the former seniors minister, moves to fisheries.

Carney said he needed a cabinet that could hit the ground running and was up to speed on the key issues of the economy and Donald Trump’s tariffs.��

“Keeping together those individuals so that we are seamlessly addressing those issues and seizing the opportunities was very important to us and that’s reflected in the cabinet.”

The three rookies

Kody Blois, a Nova Scotia MP long-rumoured to be on the cusp of joining cabinet and a critic of the Liberals’ consumer price on carbon who previously joined Conservatives in pushing for further exemptions for farmers, is now minister of agriculture and rural economic development.

Arielle Kayabaga is a Franco-Ontarian and London MP who came to Canada as an 11-year-old refugee during the Burundi civil war. A Liberal on the more progressive side of the party and an advocate for Palestinian rights, she takes over as House leader.��

Ali Ehsassi is the final new addition to Carney’s cabinet. The MP for Willowdale is a staunch Iranian-Canadian critic of his home country’s human rights record. He is the previous chair of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.