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Prime Minister Trudeau’s Cabinet Quick Reference Guide November 2015

Minister Portfolio Biographical Sketch

Justin Trudeau is the Leader of the of and has been a Member of Parliament since Prime Minister, Rt. Hon Justin 2008. In opposition, he sat on the Parliamentary Committees on Environment and Sustainable Intergovernmental Affairs Development and Citizenship and Immigration, and served as the critic for Youth, Post-Secondary Trudeau and Youth Education, Amateur Sports, and Citizenship and Immigration. Prior to entering politics, he chaired the Katimavik youth program and was a French and math teacher in . was executive chairman of Morneau Shepell, a Canadian human resources company. He is a Hon. Bill Morneau Finance former chair of St. Michael’s Hospital and the C.D. Howe Institute.

Stéphane Dion is a former cabinet Minister for the environment and intergovernmental affairs. He has Hon. Stéphane Dion Foreign Affairs been a member of Parliament for nearly 20 years and is a former leader of the .

Harjit Sajjan has served Canada as both a soldier and a police officer. Sajjan is a in the Hon. Defence and a combat veteran. He has deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina and served three separate deployments to , . He was also a police officer with the Vancouver Police Department for 11 years.

Scott Brison is a longtime Member of Parliament. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission and has been named a Young Global Leader by the (WEF) of Davos, Switzerland. He Hon. Treasury Board served as Minister of Public Works and Government Services, and Receiver General of Canada from 2004 to 2006.

Hon. Jody Wilson- Jody Wilson-Raybould is a former crown prosecutor, treaty and BC Assembly of First Justice Nations regional chief. She has ten years of experience as an elected official. She was called to the Bar in Raybould 2000 and she later served as an advisor at the BC Treaty Commission.

Navdeep Bains served as a Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011 and served as Parliamentary Innovation, Science and Secretary to the Prime Minister in 2005. He is a Certified Management Accountant and holds an MBA Hon. Economic Development with a specialization in Finance. He is a close confidant of the Prime Minster and played a key role in his leadership bid in 2013.

Ralph Goodale has been in government for more than 12 years and served in the federal Cabinet as Public Safety and Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Natural Resources, Leader of the Government in the House of Hon. Emergency Preparedness Commons, Minister of Public Works, and finally Minister of Finance. He was also the deputy leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Jane Philpott is a family physician and served as the Chief of the Department of Family Medicine at Health Markham Stouffville Hospital. She worked in for a decade, where she practiced general medicine Hon. and helped to develop a training program for village health workers. She is the founder of Give a Day to World AIDS, a movement that has raised more than $4 million to help those affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Dominic Leblanc was first elected to the House of Commons in November 2000 and served as Leader of the Government to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Deputy Chief Hon. Dominic Leblanc in the House of Commons Government Whip. He received his Master’s in Law from Harvard and worked as a lawyer in . He is a close personal friend of Prime Minister Trudeau.

Carolyn Bennett served as Canada's first Minister of State for Public Health in 2003 in the wake of the Indigenous and Northern SARS epidemic, where she set up the Public Health Agency of Canada, appointed the first Chief Public Hon. Health Officer for Canada, and oversaw the establishment of a Public Health Network for Canada. She has Affairs served as the Liberal Critic for Aboriginal Affairs in opposition. She also chairs the All-Party Women’s Caucus.

Hon. Chrystia has served in various editorial positions with the , , International Trade and Thomson , where she was the managing director and editor for consumer Freeland news. Freeland was the Liberal Party International Trade critic while in opposition.

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Judy Foote has been a Member of Parliament since 2008. Previously, she was a Member of the Public Services and Newfoundland House Assembly and served in cabinet as Minister of Development and Rural Renewal as Hon. Procurement well as Minister of Industry, Trade and Technology, Minister of Education, and Minister of Industry, Trade and Rural Development. Prior to her involvement in politics, she worked in television journalism.

Lawrence MacAulay has been a Member of Parliament since 1988 and is a former federal Cabinet Hon. Lawrence Minister, who served in multiple roles including Solicitor General of Canada, Minister of Labour, Minister Agriculture and Agri-Food MacAulay of State for Veterans and Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. He recently served as Vice-Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans.

John McCallum was first elected to the House of Commons in November 2000. He served as Minister of Immigration, Refugees and National Defence, and in 2003, as Minister of Veterans Affairs. He was appointed Minister of National Hon. John McCallum Revenue and Chair of the Expenditure Review Committee by Prime Minister . In opposition, Citizenship he served as the Critic for Citizenship and Immigration, Multiculturalism and Seniors. Before entering politics, he was senior vice-president and chief economist of the Royal .

Hon. Catherine Environment and Climate Catherine McKenna is a lawyer from and was the co-founder and executive director of Canadian McKenna Change Lawyers Abroad. She was also a legal advisor to the peacekeeping team in East Timor. served as an engineer with the Canadian Navy and later was a Canadian astronaut and the Hon. Marc Garneau Transport president of the Canadian Space Agency. He was one of the leadership candidates who ran against Prime Minister .

Jean-Yves Duclos was Director of the Department of Economics and a tenured professor at the Université Hon. Jean-Yves Families, Children and Laval, as a well-published author, conference speaker, and renowned economics expert. In addition, he is Chairholder of the Industrial Alliance Research Chair on the Economics of Demographic Change, Vice- Duclos Social Development President of the Canadian Economics Association, and a member of the Institut sur le vieillissement et la participation sociale des aînés.

Mélanie Joly is a lawyer and communication professional who worked at two law firms in Montréal Hon. Mélanie Joly Heritage and as a managing partner of a national public relations firm. The founder of the party Le Vrai Changement pour Montréal, she ran for mayor of Montréal in 2013.

Amarjeet Sohi was a two-term City Councilor and represented the city on the Canadian Urban Infrastructure and Hon. Transit Association. Sohi served as member of the Edmonton Police Commission and took a leadership Communities role to create the Police Chief's Indo-Canadian Liaison Committee, the Punjabi Cultural Association and the Punjabi Arts Association.

Maryam is a community organizer and former mayoral candidate in Peterborough. She is Vice-President of the YWCA of Peterborough and Haliburton Board of Directors, and the former director of the Hon. Democratic Institutions Public Interest Research Group, and the New Centre. She is the co-founder of the Red Pashmina Campaign, a grassroots initiative that has raised over $150,000 to help support women in Afghanistan. She is the first Afghan-Canadian Member of Parliament.

Hunter Tootoo was first elected as the MLA for Centre in 1999 and served there for 14 years. He Fisheries and Oceans, and was the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly as well as in numerous cabinet positions, including Minister Hon. Responsible for the Housing Corporation, Homelessness, the Qulliq Energy Corporation and Canadian Coastguard Minister of Education. Prior to his work in the public sector, he was a businessman and co-founder of the Iqaluit branch of Arctic Insurance Brokers Ltd.

MaryAnn Mihychuk was elected as a member of ’s NDP government in 1995, and served as Hon. MaryAnn Employment Workforce Minister of Industry, Trade, and Mines and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. She has a Bachelor of Science from the University of and a Master’s in Geology from Brock University, and has Mihychuk Development and Labour worked in several capacities within Canada’s mineral industry. She was also the founder of both Women in Mining Canada and Women in Mining Manitoba.

Diane Lebouthillier served as the warden for the Regional County Municipality (RCM) of Rocher Percé Hon. Diane National Revenue since 2010 and spent over 20 years working with the Rocher Percé Health and Social Services Centre. She Lebouthillier chaired the boards of directors of Réseau collectif Gaspésie Les Îles and Transport adapté et collectif des Anses, and is also the Vice chairperson of the Board of Directors of Les Ateliers Actibec 2000 inc.

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Veterans Affairs, and represented the people of in the Legislative Assembly of for more than seven years. At the age of 22, he was hit by a drive-by shooter, leaving him paralyzed. He later practiced law at Hon. Kent Hehr Associate Minister of a top national firm and became an active community leader working with the United Way and heading National Defence the Alberta branch of the Canadian Paraplegic Association.

Patricia Hajdu was the Executive Director at Shelter House. She served as Chairperson for the Drug Awareness Committee of Thunder Bay and the authored the Implementation Panel for the Thunder Bay Hon. Patricia Hajdu Status of Women Drug Strategy. She was formerly on the Board of Directors for Alphacourt Mental Health Services and the Ontario Literacy Coalition.

Bardish Chagger is a long-time Liberal Party activist and was an organizer for the Prime Minister’s leadership campaign in 2013. She is a community organizer and recently worked with the Kitchener- Hon. Small Business and Tourism Waterloo Multicultural Centre. The recognized Bardish as one of “40 under 40” who would lead Waterloo Region into the future.

Carla Qualtrough is a human rights lawyer who chaired the BC Minister’s Council on Employment and Hon. Carla Sport, and Persons with Accessibility and was an adjudicator with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Tribunal. She is also a former legal counsel for both the BC and Canadian human rights commissions. Visually impaired since Qualtrough Disabilities birth, she won three Paralympic and four World Championship medals and served as President of the Canadian Paralympic Committee

Kirsty Duncan has been a Member of Parliament since 2008. She holds a Doctorate in Geology from the and served on the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She was an Associate Professor of Health Studies at the University of and the former Hon. Science Research Director for the AIC Institute of Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management. She most recently sat on the Advisory Board for Pandemic Flu for the Conference Board of Canada, and the .

Jim Carr is a businessman and founding CEO of the Business Council of Manitoba. He is also a former MLA Hon. Natural Resources and deputy leader of the . He is the founding Co-chair of the Winnipeg Poverty Reduction Council and a member of the board of the Canada West Foundation.

Marie-Claude Bibeau is a former international development worker at the Canadian International Hon. Marie-Claude International Development Development Agency (CIDA), working in Ottawa, Montréal, Morocco and Benin, and an experienced businesswoman. She is a former board member of Commerce Sherbrooke, a member of the strategic Bibeau and La francophonie planning committee of the regional county municipality (RCM) of Coaticook, and chair of the governing board of École Louis-St-Laurent in Compton.

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