By Sammy Hudes

Company leaders and enterprise associations say their priorities embody holding Carney accountable in terms of his promise of launching nation-building initiatives, together with hitting the reset button on the power and setting information.

Listed below are among the ministers to observe together with among the key objects on their to-do lists.

François-Philippe Champagne

Champagne maintains his place as minister of finance after taking up the file simply forward of the federal election. He’ll be charged with executing a marketing campaign platform that included roughly $129 billion in new measures that will add to the deficit over the following 4 years, together with a one percentage-point tax minimize to the bottom revenue bracket.

Carney pledged to separate the finances into working and capital streams, and steadiness the working facet by 2028-2029, whereas working a $48 billion deficit on the capital facet for that fiscal 12 months. The platform additionally promised scaling again authorities spending progress from 9 to 2 per cent, whereas including new program spending in response to the commerce conflict with the U.S.

Chrystia Freeland, Dominic LeBlanc and Maninder Sidhu

As an indication of how necessary the commerce file has turn into, three ministers might be within the combine as Canada charts a brand new path for its commerce relationship with the U.S. — together with decreasing obstacles at residence.

LeBlanc is the purpose individual because the minister answerable for Canada-U.S. commerce, intergovernmental affairs and “One Canadian Financial system,” whereas former deputy prime minister Freeland is the brand new minister of transport and inside commerce. Sidhu is the minister of worldwide commerce.

Their work is minimize out for them after final week’s assembly between Carney and President Donald Trump within the Oval Workplace, the place the U.S. president indicated nothing Carney might say would persuade him to right away drop tariffs on Canada. The pair additionally spoke about renegotiating the Canada-United States-Mexico Settlement, with Carney noting “some issues about it are going to have to alter.”

Within the face of tariffs, Carney has mentioned tearing down inside commerce obstacles throughout provinces — a job he desires obtain by Canada Day — might improve the dimensions of Canada’s economic system by $250 billion.

Gregor Robertson

Robertson, a former Vancouver mayor, takes on the position of minister of housing and infrastructure, placing him within the highlight because the federal authorities responds to Canada’s housing disaster. In the course of the election marketing campaign, the Liberals promised to double the speed of residential development over the following decade to achieve 500,000 houses per 12 months.

A spotlight of the plan is its emphasis on scaling up prefabricated housing development. It mentioned a brand new entity known as Construct Canada Properties would offer $25 billion in debt financing and $1 billion in fairness financing to prefabricated residence builders to cut back development occasions by as much as 50%.

Evan Solomon and Mélanie Joly

Carney’s cupboard carves out the brand new place of minister of synthetic intelligence and digital innovation, to be helmed by former journalist Solomon, whereas shuffling Joly to the business file from international affairs.

Tech companies might be watching carefully to see how Ottawa units out guidelines and laws surrounding AI, particularly after some proposals have been wiped when former prime minister Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament in January. As an example, Invoice C-27 would have created three new acts rooted in shopper privateness, knowledge safety and AI guardrails. 

The federal authorities additionally has a voluntary AI code of conduct, by which signatories promise to outfit their AI techniques with danger mitigation measures, use adversarial testing to uncover vulnerabilities in such techniques and maintain observe of any harms the know-how causes.

Julie Dabrusin and Tim Hodgson

Additionally working carefully might be Dabrusin, minister of setting and local weather change, and Hodgson, minister of power and pure assets. The course of the 2 information might be largely intertwined as the federal government works to steadiness progress within the power sector together with environmental issues.

In the course of the marketing campaign, Carney signalled an openness to constructing extra pipelines in Canada, whereas vowing to chop approval occasions to get initiatives constructed quicker. He additionally mentioned having western Canadian oil move by means of the U.S. to Ontario and Quebec presents a nationwide safety menace.

However he mentioned his authorities wouldn’t repeal Invoice C-69, which overhauled how main nationwide infrastructure initiatives are reviewed for environmental impacts. 

The PM additionally confirmed his authorities would maintain Ottawa’s emissions cap on oil and gasoline manufacturing in place — regardless of the calls for of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and the desires of the power sector at massive — however fast-track investments in carbon seize to fulfill these emissions targets

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Final modified: Could 13, 2025