Carney to name new cabinet on Tuesday: Rideau Hall

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will unveil his first post-election cabinet on Tuesday, according to the Governor General’s office. The unveiling is set to take place at 10:30 a.m. ET at Rideau Hall. Carney said last week that he planned to maintain a small, efficient cabinet. He also said plans to return to predecessor Justin Trudeau’s gender parity rule that maintains an equal number of men and women in cabinet. Carney put together a transitional cabinet of 24 ministers in March, less than two weeks before calling a snap election that yielded a third straight Liberal minority government. He cut more than a dozen positions from Trudeau’s final cabinet, including posts for labour, gender equality and seniors. The maiden cabinet consisted of 13 men and 11 women. Carney’s new team is expected to be slightly larger than the transitional cabinet. The prime minister has been mum about whether senior figures from his first cabinet, such as Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, will stay in their roles. “Did he ask you to ask that question?” Carney joked with a reporter when asked whether Champagne would remain as finance minister. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly traveled with Carney this week on his visit to Washington, D.C., to meet U.S. President Donald Trump. More to come. National Post rmohamed@postmedia.com Get more deep-dive National Post political coverage and analysis in your inbox with the Political Hack newsletter, where Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson and political analyst Tasha Kheiriddin get at what’s really going on behind the scenes on Parliament Hill every Wednesday and Friday, exclusively for subscribers. Sign up here. Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark nationalpost.com and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here.