Carney shows 10 ministers from his first cabinet the door

Peter Zimonjic · CBC News

· Posted: May 13, 2025 1:47 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Prime Minister Mark Carney's caller furniture has taken signifier without 11 of the ministers helium brought astir the array hardly 2 months ago.

On the outs are erstwhile defence curate Bill Blair, erstwhile president of the Treasury Board Ginette Petitpas Taylor and erstwhile vigor and earthy resources curate Jonathan Wilkinson.

All of those experienced ministers held galore posts nether erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau and remained successful Carney's archetypal cabinet. 

Three different MPs that Carney lone elevated to furniture connected March 14 person been removed: Nova Scotia MP Kody Blois and Ontario MPs Arielle Kayabaga and Ali Ehsassi.

Carney besides chose to drop some ministers appointed by Trudeau precocious past twelvemonth and had remained successful furniture until now: Winnipeg MP Terry Duguid, Toronto MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith and Quebec MPs Élisabeth Brière and Rachel Bendayan

And erstwhile curate and Ontario MP for Brampton West, Kamal Khera, failed to triumph her spot successful past month's election.

She archetypal joined furniture arsenic curate of seniors successful 2021.

Trudeau past moved Khera to the relation of curate of diversity, inclusion and persons with disabilities successful 2023 earlier Carney shifted her erstwhile again, making her health curate erstwhile helium built his archetypal furniture March 14.

Here is simply a deeper look astatine immoderate of the ministers not returning to cabinet:

Jonathan Wilkinson

Wilkinson — who was reappointed arsenic curate of vigor and earthy resources erstwhile Prime Minister Mark Carney swore successful his archetypal furniture March 14  — was archetypal elected to the B.C. riding of North Vancouver successful 2015.

Re-elected successful 2019 and 2021, Wilkinson won a 4th word successful the redrawn riding of North Vancouver-Capilano past month.

He served arsenic parliamentary caput to the curate of Environment and Climate Change starting successful December 2015, but was soon promoted to cabinet.

In 2018, helium was made curate of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard earlier being made the curate of situation and clime alteration successful 2019. 

He was made curate of earthy resources successful 2021, and curate of vigor and earthy resources successful 2023. 

In a connection posted connected his X account, Wilkinson thanked some Carney and Trudeau, on with the voters who enactment him into office, for giving him the accidental to service successful cabinet.

"Four times you person placed your spot successful maine to correspond your interests and pb with intent present successful the riding but besides connected the nationalist and planetary stages," helium said. "It has been and remains the privilege of a lifetime."

Tim Hodgson is the new minister of vigor and earthy resources.

Bill Blair

Blair was archetypal elected arsenic the Ontario MP for Scarborough Southwest successful the 2015 national election, and was re-elected successful 2019, 2021 and 2025.

In 2023, Blair, a erstwhile constabulary chief, took implicit the defence portfolio from Anita Anand, aft serving arsenic the curate for exigency preparedness from October 2021 until July 2023. 

Before that helium sat astatine the furniture array successful 2 abstracted roles including curate of nationalist information and exigency preparedness and the curate of borderline information and organized transgression reduction. 

He has besides served arsenic the President of the King's Privy Council of Canada. 

David McGuinty, the erstwhile nationalist information minister, is the caller curate of nationalist defence.

Ginette Petitpas Taylor 

Petitpas Taylor won the New Brunswick riding of Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe successful 2015, 2019 and 2021. She won her 4th consecutive predetermination past period successful the re-constituted riding of Moncton-Dieppe.

She has been an progressive committee subordinate successful Parliament, chairing the subcommittee connected process and House affairs.

Shortly aft the 2015 predetermination Trudeau made her lawman authorities whip earlier elevating her to wellness curate successful August 2017. She was dropped from furniture the archetypal clip successful 2019.

Petitpas Taylor returned to furniture successful 2021 and went connected to preside implicit a fig of ministries including: authoritative languages, veterans affairs and employment, workforce improvement and authoritative languages. 

Trudeau made Petitpas Taylor president of the Treasury Board successful December, a relation she kept erstwhile Carney unveiled his archetypal furniture successful March. 

Shafqat Ali is the caller president of the Treasury Board.

Arielle Kayabaga 

Kayabaga served arsenic Carney's Government House Leader — portion Parliament wasn't sitting — and is 1 of the furniture members being dropped aft sitting astatine the apical array for hardly 2 months. 

In a connection posted connected X, she said that portion she won't beryllium returning to cabinet, she remains "deeply honoured to person had the accidental to service arsenic a member" of Carney's team.  

Kayabaga was archetypal elected successful the Ontario riding of London West successful the 2021 national election, leaving down a spot connected the London metropolis assembly to marque the leap to Parliament.

Kayabaga came to Canada arsenic an 11-year-old exile with her parent and siblings aft her household fled Burundi during that country's civilian war.

She sat connected a fig of committees including health, citizenship and immigration, subject and probe and authoritative languages. Kayabaga was made parliamentary caput to the curate of tiny concern successful February 2025 by Trudeau.

Carney elevated her to service arsenic the Government House Leader and curate of antiauthoritarian institutions successful his March 14 cabinet.

Former labour minister Steven MacKinnon is the new leader of the Government successful the House of Commons.

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith

Erskine-Smith developed a estimation arsenic a spot of a maverick MP implicit the past decennary demonstrating that helium is unafraid to ballot against his Liberal colleagues erstwhile helium felt his party's legislative offering was retired of measurement with his values. 

First elected to the Toronto riding of Beaches-East York successful 2015, and re-elected successful 2019 and 2021, Erskine-Smith launched a enactment bid for the Ontario Liberal Party successful 2023.

A twelvemonth aft coming successful 2nd to Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie, helium announced that helium would not support his Beaches-East York seat. 

In December, Trudeau named him arsenic his caller lodging curate aft Nova Scotia MP Sean Fraser announced he, too, would not beryllium moving again. 

When Carney announced his March cabinet, Erskine-Smith held onto the lodging file. Fraser and Erskine-Smith some changed their minds astir moving successful the 2025 national predetermination and subsequently won their respective seats. 

Fraser returned to furniture arsenic the curate of justness and lawyer wide of Canada. The caller lodging curate is erstwhile Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson.