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Surprised but in a good way to see Patty Hajdu there. She did a lot of good work as the director of the local Shelter House program before running for office and I was curious to see what she'd do as an MP.
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Jordan7hm posted:Biggest snubs? I'm thinking Blair and Leslie. Good. gently caress Bill Blair.
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flakeloaf posted:Sliderule you're nice. It makes the responses hilarious.
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Harjit Sajjan has a pretty impressive biography
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"Minister of Envionrment and Climate Change" 
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vyelkin posted:First time MP Harjit Sajjan as defence minister is an interesting pick but he does have army experience so there you go. Kent Hehr's the associate minister of defence, too. He's got legislative experience, but none at the federal level.
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OSI bean dip posted:Surprised Dion is Foreign Affairs and not on the Environment file. You and about 30 million other people. mik posted:"Minister of Envionrment and Climate Change" They had a public servant of some kind on CBC this morning going on about how nice it was to be able to talk about climate change again.
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flakeloaf posted:Harjit Sajjan has a pretty impressive biography Yeah, finally someone who's actually.been in active duty
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flakeloaf posted:Harjit Sajjan has a pretty impressive biography drat, you're not kidding! Probably a very good pick for defence minister.
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Sometimes it's golden.
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Oh hey, Ivison was right about something. Also, picking a multi-millionaire businessman, member of a zillion corporate boards and former chair of the CD Howe Institute, and white male from Toronto as finance minister is just the kind of The science minister sounds like a refreshing change from the previous choices of 'young Earth creationist' and 'chiropractor'.
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Happy that Blair and Vaughan aren't in any prominent positions
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Nov 4, 2015 17:07
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John MacCallum's life is about to get a LOT harder for the Refugee and Immigration file.
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flakeloaf posted:Harjit Sajjan has a pretty impressive biography This is pretty cool (though of course it's his official page so not necessarily objective) and he seems like a good pick as a result. I expect Dion wanted something more influential than Environment as his pick. He's one of the party's elder statesmen now and it makes sense that he would want to be in the thick of it instead of off in what's still a secondary portfolio.
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vyelkin posted:Unsurprising to see that men still take most of the important jobs but at least women get Justice, Trade, Health, Environment, and Science. These five posts seem very important to me, actually among some of the most important positions in the cabinet. What positions do you think are missing?
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What's the easiest way to figure out what caste each south Asian minister belongs to?
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Brannock posted:These five posts seem very important to me, actually among some of the most important positions in the cabinet. What positions do you think are missing? One of Finance, Foreign Affairs or Defence would've been nice.
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vyelkin posted:I expect Dion wanted something more influential than Environment as his pick. He's one of the party's elder statesmen now and it makes sense that he would want to be in the thick of it instead of off in what's still a secondary portfolio. A lot of the forthcoming/past international agreements on climate change are going to be ultimately negotiated through foreign affairs so I would imagine he's going to have just as much influence on Canadian climate policy as being in the actual Environment Ministry.
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Finance, Defense, immigration, public safety are all probably bigger than those. Except for Justice and Environment, those seem really prominent positions.
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Melian Dialogue posted:Uhh why not? Shouldn't they have the same labour rights afforded to anyone else? Internet leftists only care about worker's rights when it props up their myopic worldview.
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Jordan7hm posted:Finance, Defense, immigration, public safety are all probably bigger than those. Except for Justice and Environment, those seem really prominent positions. Also, for some strange reason I would guess that Environment will have a bit more importance under this government than the last one.
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Health is going to be a big deal if weed is going to get legal
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Brannock posted:These five posts seem very important to me, actually among some of the most important positions in the cabinet. What positions do you think are missing? Science is not actually a first tier position, and environment in the past hasn't been either. We'll see how it is in the Trudeau government, but as others have said I would expect Foreign Minister Dion to play a sizable role in any international agreements. Health is one that is a more traditionally female portfolio (the last two Health Ministers were Rona Ambrose and Leona Aglukkaq, for reference) so it's not surprising that that continues. That leaves Justice and Trade which are legitimately good first-tier nontraditional roles for women to fill.
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Finally tuning in. That giant portrait of the Queen presiding over this is jarring to see as an American. Throw off your shackles, friends.
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Gonna take a wild shot in the dark and say Trudeau appointing a 30 year old rookie MP with no political experience as minister of democratic institutions means electoral reform is not going to be taken seriously
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linoleum floors posted:Gonna take a wild shot in the dark and say Trudeau appointing a 30 year old rookie MP with no political experience as minister of democratic institutions means electoral reform is not going to be taken seriously How dare u
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linoleum floors posted:Gonna take a wild shot in the dark and say Trudeau appointing a 30 year old rookie MP with no political experience as minister of democratic institutions means electoral reform is not going to be taken seriously Ministries work this way. It is known. Continue this type of posting.
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3 ministers from BC, nice e: all from metro Vancouver region, yesssss
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I'm pretty impressed by this cabinet so far
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linoleum floors posted:Gonna take a wild shot in the dark and say Trudeau appointing a 30 year old rookie MP with no political experience as minister of democratic institutions means electoral reform is not going to be taken seriously Might be better than appointing an older MP who believes in only FPTP and won't get anything else a serious look. 
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Pry-vee council lol EDIT: Mind you, given some of the butchered French we've heard so far, that's not really that bad.
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DariusLikewise posted:Might be better than appointing an older MP who believes in only FPTP and won't get anything else a serious look. I agree with this assessment. Youth and change are going to be the driving forces of the democratic reform portfolio, and they're not required to bowl anyone over, either. I would imagine that there would be at least one cabinet change in the first two years, anyway, to slot in a more vigourous manager for the possible referendum.
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PT6A posted:Pry-vee council lol I'm irrationally angry at how people pronounce "heir"
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What an innovative idea to appoint a bus driver as infrastructure minister. Truly the working man now has a voice in government. You did it sjws!
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Interesting that Joyce Murray didn't get a spot considering she's one of the most high profile Liberal women, came second in the leadership race, and was the party's defence critic. I would've loved to see her in democratic reform since she's on record as a big supporter of PR.
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I'm a little surprised Garneau got Transport. Had him pegged for either defense or one of the science ones. Maybe we're getting legal weed AND free public space transit 
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ZeeBoi posted:I'm irrationally angry at how people pronounce "heir" Yeah, me too. Another pry-vee council here! Cultural Imperial posted:What an innovative idea to appoint a bus driver as infrastructure minister. Truly the working man now has a voice in government. You did it sjws! I wish he could be a Realtor just to really piss you off. Just for you, CI!
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