London MP Arielle Kayabaga appointed House leader in Mark Carney's cabinet

Alessio Donnini · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 14, 2025 12:55 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

London West Liberal MP Arielle Kayabaga was fixed a presumption successful Prime Minister Mark Carney's furniture during a swearing-in ceremonial successful Ottawa, aboriginal Friday afternoon.

Kayabaga, a erstwhile downtown London metropolis councillor, and a national person since 2021, volition capable the relation of authorities House person and Minister of Democratic Institutions.

It was the presumption astir precocious held by Karina Gould, who ran for the Liberal leadership, and is not returning to cabinet. 

Eighteen Trudeau authorities furniture ministers are not returning to cabinet, either due to the fact that they person decided not to tally successful the adjacent predetermination oregon due to the fact that Carney replaced them with idiosyncratic other arsenic helium enactment unneurotic a overmuch smaller cabinet.

Kayabaga is the archetypal London person to capable a national furniture presumption since erstwhile London West Conservative MP Ed Holder was unseated by the Liberals successful 2015.

As House leader, Kayabaga volition beryllium liable for coordinating the party's day-to-day concern and managing the legislative agenda, though it's improbable she'll person overmuch clip to fulfil those duties earlier a national predetermination is called by Carney.

Carney's smaller furniture is not perfectly sex adjacent arsenic it was nether Trudeau — determination are 13 men and 11 women, including Carney — and immoderate provinces don't person a curate astir the table, including Alberta, P.E.I. and Saskatchewan.