Postby FAH1223 » Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:12 pm
They even renamed the ministries
- The Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration is now Ministry of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship.
- The Ministry of the Environment is now Environment and Climate Change.
- The Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs is now Indigenous Affairs.
And the people:
- The Minister of Health is an actual doctor.
- The Minister of Science is an actual scientist.
- The Minister of Defence is an actual veteran (and the first Canadian Sikh to command a Canadian regiment!).
- The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada is a crown prosecutor and former AFN regional chief.
- The Minister of Status of Women is a former women's shelter director.
- The Minister of National Revenue is a social worker.
- The Minister of Democratic Institutions is an Afghan refugee (and the first Muslim federal cabinet minister in Canada, and she's a woman too!).
- The Minister of Sports and Persons with Disabilities is a human rights lawyer and Paralympic champion.
- Minister of International Development and La Francophonie is a former CIDA employee.
- The Minister of Transportation is an astronaut (M-A-R-S, Mars, we going to Mars! Red Rocks!).
Fully half of the cabinet positions are held by women (15/30), there are 5 people of colour of recent immigrant backgrounds, and there are 2 indigenous people in the Cabinet.