Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is getting a new portfolio in Carney's cabinet: source

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault volition beryllium fixed a caller portfolio successful Mark Carney's cabinet, a root with cognition of the determination told Radio-Canada.

The Montreal MP and erstwhile Greenpeace activist, who has held the portfolio since 2021, volition alternatively beryllium liable for assorted files, said the source, who was not authorized to talk connected the record.  

However, helium volition nary longer beryllium the look of the combat against clime change. 

Guilbeault learned the quality successful the past fewer hours, the root said. 

Canada's adjacent premier curate appears intent connected marking a wide interruption with the Trudeau-era user c tax, a argumentation Guilbeault, until recently, aggressively defended. That made him a polarizing curate successful parts of the country, and helium often faced disconnected against Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Carney, erstwhile a proponent of c pricing, campaigned connected dropping the c taxation and repeated the committedness successful his acceptance code Monday. 

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Guilbeault suggested earlier this twelvemonth that he's unfastened to replacing the national strategy if candidates tin suggest caller measures to assistance Canada execute its clime targets. Guilbeault blamed Conservative "disinformation" for making the measurement toxic to Canadians.

He endorsed Carney during the enactment race. 

Sources with cognition of Carney's plans person said he's aiming for a much svelte furniture to face the commercialized warfare launched by U.S. President Donald Trump and the ensuing economical uncertainty. 

Those sources said Carney's squad volition beryllium successful the scope of 15 to 20 members — paring down from the 37 ministers successful Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet 

Key players connected the Canada-U.S. relations file, including Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, aren't expected to beryllium dropped from furniture and are expected to support their jobs. 

Friday's transition will statesman erstwhile Trudeau meets with Governor General Mary Simon to resign and urge that she inquire the caller person to signifier a authorities and caller ministry.