Nova Scotia MPs Lena Metlege Diab, Sean Fraser named to Carney's cabinet

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· Posted: May 13, 2025 11:24 AM EDT | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago

Two Nova Scotia MPs person been named to Prime Minister Mark Carney's caller cabinet.

Lena Metlege Diab, MP for Halifax West, volition be the caller Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.

Central Nova MP Sean Fraser volition beryllium the new Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and the curate liable for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

Fraser antecedently served arsenic Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities and arsenic the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship successful Justin Trudeau's cabinet.

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Diab and Fraser are among the 28 ministers being sworn successful astatine Rideau Hall successful Ottawa connected Tuesday. 

Kody Blois, the MP for Kings—Hants,  who was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Rural Economic Development by Carney successful March, is nary longer successful cabinet. That presumption volition present beryllium filled by Prince Edward Island MP Heath MacDonald.

Newfoundland and Labrador MP Joanne Thompson, meanwhile, is staying connected arsenic the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard aft archetypal being appointed successful March.