Christy Clark announced her cabinet today, with much pomp and circumstance, at a special ceremony at Canada Place in downtown Vancouver.
Against the backdrop of the Port of Vancouver, Clark produced her lineup:
- Rich Coleman will take the newly-created ministry of natural gas development and will remain deputy premier, and he will also continue to hold the housing portfolio;
- Mike de Jong will continue as finance minister and house leader;
- Steve Thomson will remain as minister of forests, lands and resources;
- Stephanie Cadieux will keep her post as minister of children and families;
- Bill Bennett will become minister of energy and mines, a portfolio which previously included natural gas;
- Former Vancouver city councillor Suzanne Anton has been named minister of justice and attorney general;
- Terry Lake has been named minister of health, replacing Margaret MacDiarmid, who lost her seat;
- John Rustad replaces Ida Chong as minister of aboriginal affairs and reconciliation;
- Don McRae, who was minister of education, will become minister of social development;
- Andrew Wilkinson has been named to the newly-created ministry of technology, innovation and social services, and will be responsible for shepherding the B.C. services card into use;
- First-time MLA Teresa Wat will become the minister international trade, Asia-Pacific strategy and multiculturalism;
- Peter Fassbender, the former mayor of Langley, takes education while Todd Stone will be the minister of transportation and infrastructure.
- Newcomer Coralee Oakes will take on the ministry of community, sport and recreation;
- Shirley Bond, the former attorney general, becomes the ministry of jobs, skills training, tourism and labour, replacing Pat Bell, who did not run for re-election;
- Mary Polak will be minister of the environment;
- Naomi Yamamoto will be minister of state for small business; and
- Pat Pimm will become minister of agriculture.
Ralph Sultan, Norm Letnick and Moira Stillwell have been dropped from cabinet.
