Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford presented his cabinet to the 43rd Ontario Parliament.
Ford has made some major changes to its front and rear benches, including the appointment of a new health minister, keeping the current education minister in place and adding the newly elected MPP to the tourism, culture and sports dossier.
This is who is in and who is outside the current cabinet of the Progressive-Conservative:
Sylvia Jones: Minister of Health
The former Ontario general solicitor will now serve as health minister and replace Christine Elliott. Elliot served throughout Ford’s first term and led Ontario’s sometimes difficult response to COVID-19. She decided not to run in the June elections.
Jones will oversee billions in planned hospital infrastructure spending and will also take on the role of deputy prime minister.
Stephen Lecce: Minister of Education
Stephen Lecce will continue to serve as Ontario’s Secretary of Education, a position he has held since June 2019.
MPP King-Vaughan was in a hot spot during the teachers’ strike across the province in 2020 and the continued closure of schools due to COVID-19 that year. There was speculation that he could be replaced.
Michael Ford: Minister of Citizenship and Multiculturalism
New MP Michael Ford will take on the role of Minister of Citizenship and Multiculturalism.
Ford, who is the prime minister’s nephew, has been a city councilor in Toronto since 2016.
Neil Lumsdon: Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport
For the first time, MPP and former CFL defender will be Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sports.
The Hall of Fame was chosen in Hamilton East – Stony Creek on June 2.
The file on tourism, culture and sports was previously held by Lisa McLeod, who no longer holds a cabinet position.
Peter Bethlenfalvi: Minister of Finance
Peter Bethlenfall will continue to serve as Ontario’s Treasury Secretary.
He was Ford’s third finance minister in the first term, replacing Vic Fedeli and then Rod Phillips, who resigned after a holiday in the Caribbean during a blockade across the province.
Bethlenfalvi submitted the provincial budget for 2022 in April, which was not adopted before the elections, but was their platform.
Caroline Mulroney: Minister of Transport
Caroline Mulroney will remain Ontario’s Secretary of Transportation.
Prior to that, she was Ontario’s Attorney General from 2018 to 2019.
Merily Fullerton: Minister for Children, Community and Social Services
Fullerton remains Minister for Children, Community and Social Services.
MPP Kanata-Carleton previously monitored the long-term care portfolio during the peak of the COVID-19 waves in Ontario, which disproportionately affected older people living in life support facilities.
Fullerton was moved to the Children, Community and Social Services dossier in June 2021, less than two months after a commission investigating how and why the coronavirus spread to nursing homes found the province had no plan to protect long-term residents. virus care.
Michael Kerzner: Advocate General
The bioscience and technology entrepreneur was selected at the York Center earlier this month and takes over the file of Solicitor General Sylvia Jones.
Graden Smith: Secretary of Natural Resources and Forestry
The former mayor of Bracebridge, Ont., Will be minister of natural resources and forestry.
Greg Rickford has held the post before and will remain Minister for Northern Development and Minister for Indigenous Affairs.
Rickford also oversaw the mining portfolio, which will now be led by George Peary, former mayor of Timmins, as minister of mines, with a specific mandate to develop the Ring of Fire.
Other cabinet positions that remain unchanged include Monte McNaughton as Secretary of Labor, Steve Clark as Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Vic Fedeli as Minister of Economic Development, David Piccini as Minister of the Environment, Todd Smith as Minister of Energy. and Doug Downey as Attorney General.
The full list of Ford Executive Boards can be found here.
With files from The Canadian Press
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