B.C. premier Gordon Campbell appoints new cabinet ministers
Premier Gordon Campbell named his new cabinet today (June 10). His 24 ministers are:
Naomi Yamamoto
Minister of State for Intergovernmental Relations
George Abbott
Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation
Moira Stilwell
Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development
Steve Thomson
Minister of Agriculture and Lands
Mike de Jong
Attorney General
Mary Polak
Minister of Children and Family Development
Minister Responsible for Child Care
Ben Stewart
Minister of of Citizens' Services
Bill Bennett
Minister of Community and Rural Development
Dr. Margaret MacDiarmid
Minister of Education and Minister responsible for Early Learning and Literacy
Blair Lekstrom
Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources
Randy Hawes
Minister of State for Mining
Barry Penner
Minister of Environment
John Yap
Minister of State for Climate Action
Colin Hansen
Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier
Pat Bell
Minister of Forests and Range
Minister Responsible for Integrated Land Management Bureau
Kevin Falcon
Minister of Health Services
Ida Chong
Minister of Healthy Living and Sport
Mary McNeil
Minister of State for the Olympics and ActNow BC
Rich Coleman
Minister of Housing and Social Development
Kash Heed
Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General
Murray Coell
Minister of Labour
Iain Black
Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development
Kevin Krueger
Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts
Shirley Bond
Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure
Comments
4 Comments
obvious
Jun 10, 2009 at 4:00pm
Wow, just when you thought it couldn't get worse Falcon as Minister of Health Services. And the devil we all loathed at the Open Learning Agency, Shirley Bond is Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure. Things just got interesting.
Evil Eye
Jun 10, 2009 at 5:43pm
A friend has informed me that the Transportation ministry isn't going to be the "good news" ministry in the next 4 years and Falcon wanted to bail.
The Valley Rail folks (at least 4 outfits fighting for the same thing) has also grabbed the local politicians imagination and Falcon want to distance himself from a rejection of the Valley Interurban, by Campbell.
The Evil Eye has also has a prediction. The Evergreen line is toast and Campbell wants to build the Campbell Line from the End of the Millennium Line to UBC.
Point Grey Resident
Jun 10, 2009 at 5:49pm
I have one suggestion for the Minister of State for Climate Action, pick up and telephone, call TransLink and tell TransLink to remove its diesel buses from the trolley bus routes in Vancouver within 90 days. How we got to the point where a bunch of do nothings at the City of Vancouver Engineering Department have turned into cheerleaders for TransLink's obscene proliferation of B-Line rapid transit all over the place on the Vancouver trolley bus routes and on the UBC trolley bus routes in particular is beyond comprehension.
MD from the east
Jun 10, 2009 at 6:15pm
With all the experiences on her resume, I am surprised that Dr.MacDiarmid is not the Minister of Health Services. I thought that's why people elected her, for her specialty in health system. Huh...
Speaking of MacDiarmid, I wonder what Jenn's next step will be like. She's a great as a person, but I am not too sure if she's 'suitable' in politics. Wish she all the best.