Waterloo Region isn’t leaving the federal cabinet table.
Waterloo MP Bardish Chagger was sworn in Wednesday as Canada’s newest minister for small business and tourism.
Chagger handily dispatched Conservative incumbent Peter Braid in last month’s election, winning the seat by more than 10,000 votes.
In the previous cabinet, the small business and tourism portfolios were handled by Maxime Bernier as a minister of state.
Former Cambridge MP Gary Goodyear was Waterloo Region’s last cabinet representative.
He served as minister of state for science and technology from 2008 until 2009, when he was named minister of state responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency in Southern Ontario.
The full cabinet list reads as follows:
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, also minister of intergovernmental affairs and youth;
- Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale;
- Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay;
- Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephane Dion;
- Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship John McCallum;
- Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Carolyn Bennett;
- President of the Treasury Board Scott Brison;
- Leader of the Government in the House of Commons Dominic LeBlanc;
- Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Singh Bains;
- Minister of Finance William Morneau;
- Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Jody Wilson-Raybould;
- Minister of Public Services and Procurement Judy Foote;
- Minister of International Trade Chrystia Freeland;
- Minister of Health Jane Philpott;
- Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Jean-Yves Duclos;
- Minister of Transport Marc Garneau;
- Minister of International Development and La Francophonie Marie-Claude Bibeau;
- Minister of Natural Resources James Carr;
- Minister of Canadian Heritage Melanie Joly;
- Minister of National Revenue Diane Lebouthillier;
- Minister of Veterans Affairs Kent Hehr, also associate minister of National Defence;
- Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna;
- Minister of National Defence Harjit Singh Sajjan;
- Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour MaryAnn Mihychuk;
- Minister of Infrastructure and Communities Amarjeet Sohi;
- Minister of Democratic Institutions Maryam Monsef;
- Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities Carla Qualtrough;
- Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Hunter Tootoo;
- Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan;
- Minister of Status of Women Patricia A. Hajdu;
- Minister of Small Business and Tourism Bardish Chagger.
With files from The Canadian Press
