2015 NEW CABINET OF CANADA IS 15:15

Canada’s new prime minister Justin Trudeau.

Canada’s new prime minister Justin Trudeau has named a young and ethnically diverse cabinet, with a ministerial team that for the first time in the country’s history is equally balanced between men and women.

The ministers – 15 women and 15 men – are mostly aged under 50, in a team marking both a generational change and a commitment to reflecting Canada’s diversity.

“It’s important to be here before you today to present to Canada a cabinet that looks like Canada,” Trudeau, 43, told reporters on Wednesday soon after he was officially sworn-in as the country’s 23rd prime minister – the second-youngest in its history.

Asked to explain his gender parity promise, he answered: “Because it’s 2015.”

          

•  Justin Trudeau (Quebec) - Prime Minister, Intergovernmental Affairs and Youth.
• Ralph Goodale (Saskatchewan) - Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.
• Lawrence MacAulay (P.E.I.) - Agriculture and Agri-Food.
• Stéphane Dion (Quebec) - Foreign Affairs.
• John McCallum (Ontario) - Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.
• Carolyn Bennett (Ontario) - Indigenous and Northern Affairs.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, goes face-to-face with Finance Minister Bill
Morneau at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Nov. 4, 2015. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

• Jody Wilson-Raybould (B.C.) - Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
• Judy Foote (Newfoundland and Labrador) - Public Services and Procurement.
• Chrystia Freeland (Ontario) - International Trade.
• Jane Philpott (Ontario) - Health.
• Jean-Yves Duclos (Quebec) - Families, Children and Social Development.
• Marc Garneau (Quebec) - Transport.
• Marie-Claude Bibeau (Quebec) - International Development and La francophonie.
• Jim Carr (Manitoba) - Natural Resources.
• Mélanie Joly (Quebec) - Heritage.
• Diane Lebouthillier (Quebec) - National Revenue.
• Kent Hehr (Alberta) - Veterans Affairs, and Associate Minister of National Defence.
• Catherine McKenna (Ontario) - Environment and Climate Change.

Trudeau congratulates Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna
after she was officially sworn in on Wednesday morning. (CBC News)

• Harjit Sajjan (B.C.) - National Defence.
• MaryAnn Mihychuk (Manitoba) - Employment Workforce Development and Labour.
• Amarjeet Sohi (Alberta) - Infrastructure and Communities.
• Maryam Monsef (Ontario) - Democratic Institutions.
• Carla Qualtrough (B.C.) - Sport, and Persons with Disabilities.
• Hunter Tootoo (Nunavut) - Fisheries and Oceans, and Canadian Coast Guard.
• Kirsty Duncan (Ontario) - Science.
• Patricia Hajdu (Ontario) - Status of Women.
• Bardish Chagger (Ontario) - Small Business and Tourism.
• Scott Brison (Nova Scotia) - Treasury Board President.
• Dominic Leblanc (New Brunswick) - Leader of the Government in the House of Commons.
• Navdeep Bains (Ontario) - Innovation, Science and Economic Development.
• Bill Morneau (Ontario) - Finance.