Burnaby–Deer Lake MLA Anne Kang becomes B.C.'s newest cabinet minister

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      Premier John Horgan has finally found a full-time replacement for Jinny Sims as the minister of citizens' services.

      Burnaby–Deer Lake MLA Anne Kang was appointed today, more than three-and-a-half months after Sims quit cabinet amid news of an RCMP investigation.

      As the minister, Kang is responsible for modernizing government procurement, extending high-speed Internet to remote and Indigenous communities, and overseeing the registration of business, societies, and cooperatives, among other areas.

      Selina Robinson had been the acting minister of citizens' services.

      Horgan also swapped some of the cabinet responsibilities of Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall and Surrey–Whalley MLA Bruce Ralston.

      Ralston, a former NDP president, becomes minister of energy, mines and petroleum resources. According to a government news release, he will implement initiatives to support the CleanBC climate plan and the development of carbon capture and storage.

      In a recent book called The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028 and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth, U.S. author Jeremy Rifkin thoroughly trashed the concept of carbon capture and storage, maintaining that Europeans have already demonstrated that it's not technologically feasible.

      Mungall is the new minister of jobs, economic development and competitiveness.

      Meanwhile, a special prosecutor, Richard Peck, has been appointed to work with the RCMP in determining if Sims was involved in any actions that warrant any criminal charges. To date, no charges have been laid.

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