Still, both clearly represent attributes Trudeau might well need, and their names often come up when Liberal insiders are musing about who’ll crack the cabinet.
In interviews just after the election, they weren’t advertising their own credentials. At 36, Joly, who won on her first try in a Montreal riding, is a lawyer and former mayoral candidate, and headed Trudeau’s Quebec advisory committee back when he was seeking the Liberal leadership in 2013. There are a lot of contenders, but looking at just two who get mentioned often in speculation-veteran MP John McCallum and rookie Mélanie Joly-gives a sense of the delicate task of sifting and selecting that Trudeau and his senior advisers now face.Īt 65, McCallum, who was re-elected this week in his Toronto-area riding, was chief economist at Royal Bank of Canada before jumping into politics, and served as defence minister under former prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin. 4 as he builds that first cabinet, which he has set as his first priority during the roughly two-week transition to Liberal from Conservative rule. Or, to put it another way, a lot of egos to satisfy and disappoint between now and Nov. (Sean Kilpatrick/CP)Īfter the election of a remarkable 184 Liberal MPs, incoming prime minister Justin Trudeau has a lot of talent to deploy in his first cabinet. Liberal leader Justin Trudeau waves to the crowd after his speech at Liberal election headquarters in Montreal, Que.
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