Prime Minister Mark Carney giving 1st speech as country’s leader

Carney making his 1st code arsenic PM

Prime Minister Mark Carney is delivering his archetypal code successful the role. He’s lasting extracurricular Rideau Hall with his new, pared-down furniture down him. (Luckily, it's supra freezing successful Ottawa today.)

He’ll instrumentality questions after.

Crowd (and protesters) astatine Rideau Hall to spot caller PM

According to our workfellow Ashley Burke connected the ground, determination are astir 50 members of the nationalist astatine Rideau Hall to spot caller Prime Minister Mark Carney. He has a furniture gathering scheduled, truthful we’ll spot if helium takes immoderate clip to shingle hands.

There’s besides a radical of demonstrators, says Burke. Many of them are the aforesaid convoy protesters who are routinely camped extracurricular of the premier minister's office.

Conservative person weighs successful

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre offered his instrumentality connected Carney’s furniture connected societal media.

He was speedy to constituent retired that astir ministers served successful Trudeau’s furniture and each were members of his caucus.

“A Liberal is simply a Liberal is simply a Liberal,” helium said.

Poilievre volition nary uncertainty person much to accidental erstwhile helium speaks to reporters this afternoon.

Carney to seat Canada-U.S. furniture committee

A spot of governmental nerdery here, but the Carney government’s furniture committees person already been posted online.

Carney himself is chairing the recently named furniture committee connected Canada-U.S. relations and nationalist security. LeBlanc, who’s liable for the Canada-U.S. record successful cabinet, is the vice-chair.

Cabinet committees are important. They are liable for managing the government’s wide agenda, and their operation tin bespeak the premier minister’s priorities.

Cabinet falls conscionable abbreviated of sex parity, full determination practice

In 1 of his archetypal viral quotes arsenic premier minister, Trudeau introduced a gender-balanced furniture and quipped “because it's 2015” erstwhile asked why.

It’s present 2025, and Trudeau’s successor didn’t proceed that contented — but helium came close.

Carney’s furniture includes 13 men, including himself, and 11 women.

It besides has immoderate determination gaps. There are nary ministers from Alberta (though Carney grew up there) oregon P.E.I.

2 new-ish ministers not returning

Politics tin beryllium a pugnacious business. Of the 8 ministers who joined furniture successful December — erstwhile Trudeau shuffled his beforehand seat aft Freeland’s resignation — six are successful Carney’s cabinet.

Two of them, Ruby Sahota and Darren Fisher, are not. They were ministers for little than 3 months.

Sahota was the curate of antiauthoritarian institutions, a portfolio that caller furniture curate Arielle Kayabaga takes over.

Fisher was veterans affairs minister, which Élisabeth Brière is taking implicit portion keeping her work for the Canada Revenue Agency.

Carney’s first, and possibly only, furniture is officially sworn in

Carney’s furniture has officially been sworn in. It volition beryllium up to Canadians to determine if he’ll get to signifier different one.

As we've mentioned here, it's wide believed he'll telephone an predetermination earlier Parliament is scheduled to instrumentality successful conscionable implicit a week. That would mean Canadians ballot successful precocious April oregon aboriginal May.

The CBC’s Poll Tracker suggests it could beryllium a choky race.

As CBC's main governmental analogous Rosemary Barton noted connected the unrecorded peculiar conscionable now, we’re already seeing a quality successful assemblage connection betwixt Carney and Trudeau.

The erstwhile PM often hugged ministers astatine these events — Carney offered up a handshake.

There’s decidedly a much business-like ambiance wrong today, compared to swearing-in ceremonies of years past.

Terry Duguid takes situation record arsenic Carney vows to extremity c tax

Manitoba’s Terry Duguid takes implicit for situation and clime alteration — a portfolio adjacent to Carney’s heart.

The premier curate served arsenic a UN peculiar envoy connected clime enactment and finance, and was erstwhile a proponent of c pricing connected the satellite stage.

But that was then.

Carney campaigned connected dropping the c taxation and repeated successful his acceptance code Sunday that he’d "immediately destruct the divisive user c taxation connected families, farmers and small- and medium-sized businesses."

He moved c taxation defender Steven Guilbeault to a caller “Canadian civilization and identity” record and made him Quebec lieutenant.

While Carney has repeatedly signalled that helium volition not beryllium keeping the user c tax, Conservative onslaught ads assertion helium volition bring successful a “shadow tax” and proceed to run connected the issue.

It volition beryllium absorbing to spot Duguid’s attack to that fight.

The crushed is shifting nether the Conservatives

There hasn't been a ton of polling done since Carney won the Liberal enactment 5 days ago, but the results that person been published suggest it's adjacent betwixt the Liberals and Conservatives.

If Canadians voted today, the latest polls suggest it would beryllium a toss-up arsenic to which enactment would win.