BC Premier Gordon Campbell made some major changes to his Cabinet and here they are:
Premier – Hon. Gordon Campbell
Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation – Hon. Barry Penner
Agriculture – Hon. Ben Stewart
Attorney General – Hon. Mike de Jong
Children and Family Development – Hon. Mary Polak
Citizens’ Services – Hon. Mary McNeil
Community, Sport and Cultural Development – Hon. Stephanie Cadieux
Education – Hon. George Abbott
Energy – Hon. Bill Bennett
Environment – Hon. Murray Coell
Minister of State for Climate Action – Hon. John Yap
Finance and Deputy Premier (Minister Responsible for Small Business) – Hon. Colin Hansen
Forests, Mines and Lands – Hon. Pat Bell
Minister of State for Mining – Hon. Randy Hawes
Health Services – Hon. Kevin Falcon
Labour – Hon. Iain Black
Natural Resource Operations – Hon. Steve Thomson
Public Safety and Solicitor General (Minister Responsible for Housing) Hon. Rich Coleman
Minister of State for Building Code Renewal – Hon. Naomi Yamamoto
Regional Economic and Skills Development – Hon. Moira Stilwell
Science and Universities – Hon. Ida Chong
Social Development – Hon. Kevin Krueger
Tourism, Trade and Investment (Minister Responsible for the Intergovernmental Relations Secretariat) – Hon. Margaret MacDiarmid
Transportation and Infrastructure – Hon. Shirley Bond
Your Parliamentary Secretaries are:
Parliamentary Secretary for the Asia-Pacific Initiative to the Minister of Tourism, Trade and Investment – Richard Lee
Parliamentary Secretary for Health Promotion to the Minister of Health Services – Terry Lake
Parliamentary Secretary for HST Information to the Minister of Finance – John Les
Parliamentary Secretary for the Mountain Pine Beetle Action Committees to the Minister of Regional Economic and Skills Development – Donna Barnett
Parliamentary Secretary for Multiculturalism to the Minister of Regional Economic and Skills Development – Dave Hayer
Parliamentary Secretary for the Natural Gas Initiative to the Minister of Energy – Pat Pimm
Parliamentary Secretary for Silviculture to the Minister of Forests, Mines and Lands – John Rustad
Parliamentary Secretary for Social Entrepreneurship to the Minister of Finance – Gordon Hogg
Note: It'll be interesting to see how the Premier follows this up tomorrow night with his speech to British Columbians. In any event, the fall-out has started. The new Energy Minister has let it be known that he is upset that the Premier did not consult the Caucus or Cabinet with regard to the changes. See that story here
Also - Vaughn Palmer and Mike Smyth (Political Columnists for Vancouver Sun/Province) provide their analysis on the cabinet changes here (Palmer) and here (Smyth)
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