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Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has played a key role in dealing with Trump in recent weeks, and will have some kind of role in Carney’s cabinet, since she’s walking up.

Also spotted: Patty Hajdu, Chrystia Freeland and Gary Anandasangaree — meaning they’ll be returning in some capacity.

Trudeau critic and Saint John's Wayne Long gets a promotion from the backbench.

And we saw Buckley Belanger, Saskatchewan's lone Liberal MP, too.

Jill McKnight, a new MP for the riding of Delta, B.C., just walked by our cameras.

Trudeau-era cabinet ministers Anita Anand, Dominic LeBlanc and Sean Fraser (who left cabinet, only to run again) also made the walk to Rideau Hall.

He was walking up with Minister of Jobs and Families Steve MacKinnon; we’ll have to see if he keeps that role.

It sounds like Carney plans to catapult many fresh faces into cabinet this morning, as well as keep a few veteran ministers.

With regional representation a priority, Eleanor Olszewski, who represents Edmonton, and Rebecca Alty, from the Northwest Territories, are also going in as either ministers or secretaries of state, sources said. New Brunswick MP Wayne Long, who played a role in pushing former prime minister Justin Trudeau to resign, is getting a promotion.

When Trudeau introduced his first cabinet nearly a decade ago, he made sure there were as many women as men.

"Because it's 2015," he quipped when asked why, perhaps his most quotable moment as PM.

It’s now 2025, and Carney has promised to keep a gender-balanced cabinet going forward.

His first cabinet included 13 men, including himself, and 11 women.

But Carney’s first cabinet eliminated certain positions, including women and gender equality, youth, official languages, diversity, inclusion, persons with disabilities and seniors — which garnered pushback from advocacy groups.

We'll see if those titles are added back in a post-election era.

Carney sailed into power largely because he promised voters he's the best leader to deal with an unpredictable Donald Trump and his trade war, so it will be interesting to see who he trusts to handle that file with him.

International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Public Safety Minister David McGuinty joined Carney last week when he met with the U.S. President in Washington.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne has also played an important role during months of tariff-driven tensions.

We’ll have to wait and see if they stay in those roles, or if Carney wants to change that crucial team.

Sources have been telling us that Carney will bring in a tiered system. There will be a smaller core cabinet, then up to 10 secretaries of state, said a PMO official, speaking on background.

Secretaries of state will be invited to cabinet and cabinet committee meetings for items related to their responsibilities, said the source. (Historically, they get paid less, too.)

Other Canadian governments have used secretaries of state or "junior ministers" in different capacities. The model is also used in the U.K., where Carney served as governor of the Bank of England.

Over half of Carney’s tariff-focused cabinet to be new faces, sources say

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to drop many members of his first cabinet when he announces his new government on Tuesday, sources say. Over half are expected to be new faces as he strives to refresh the Liberals' image and focus on the economy.

Firming up his front benches is a key step for the newly elected prime minister, ahead of a busy spring sitting that starts May 26.

Unlike other cabinet swearing-in days, there have been very few leaks of who’s in and who’s out -- perhaps a sign Carney is running a more firm and disciplined PMO.

We are hearing that about 50 per cent of the MPs in cabinet will be new.

Back in March, Carney put together a slim 23-member team (not including himself), largely meant to make sure the Canada-U.S. Relationship was taken care of during the election campaign. It was much smaller than former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, which peaked at 40 members.

After recruiting his own crop of Liberal candidates and ultimately securing a win, Carney now gets to choose the team he wants to deliver his agenda. That includes negotiating a new economic and security deal with the U.S., lowering interprovincial trade barriers and making Canada an "energy superpower."

“I committed to an efficient cabinet, a focused cabinet,” he told reporters in his first news conference after winning the April 28 election.

The swearing-in ceremony is expected to begin at 10:30 a.m. ET.

Good morning, I'm Verity Stevenson, and I'll be curating today's live updates as Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet are sworn in.

How many names Carney chooses — and obviously who — will help set the Liberal government's agenda ahead of Parliament's return later this month.

Carney has said he wants to focus on building up the Canadian economy and fighting U.S. Tariffs. The cabinet positions could provide hints about how he plans on doing that.

You'll hear from our team of reporters in Ottawa on what those decisions will mean for the country.

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