{"id":2188,"date":"2010-08-11T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secteur-public-sector.ca\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2024-09-02T21:50:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T21:50:34","slug":"cabinet-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secteur-public-sector.ca\/en\/cabinet-shuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"One new member, but all familiar faces, in Cabinet shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/one-new-member-but-all-familiar-faces-in-cabinet-shuffle-1.541216?cache=yes%3Fautoplay%3Dtrue%2F7.651959%2F7.579060\">Original post<\/a> on August 11, 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quebec has a new lineup of cabinet ministers, including one person who has yet to be elected to the National Assembly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday morning in the red room of the National Assembly, Premier Jean Charest presented his new cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is only one new face in the cabinet: Jean-Marc Fournier, who will run in a by-election in St. Laurent this fall, holds the portfolio of Justice, as well as Reform of Democratic Institutions and Access to Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before he left provincial politics in 2008, Fournier was Minister of Revenue, and assuming he is elected in the safe Liberal seat, he will once again become House Leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fournier and Charest hugged each other tightly after the swearing-in ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>12 members have new duties<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all 12 members of the cabinet took on new duties, while two others, Yolande James and Clement Bechard, saw part of their portfolios transferred to other ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Dutil, who is taking over the role of Minister of Public Security from Jacques Dupuis, had to wait for a standing ovation to stop before he could take his oath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile Kathleen Weil, the first-time MNA who was stripped of the high-profile Justice portfolio and made Minister of Immigration and Cultural Communities, was the only MNA to take her oath in English and in French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the swearing-in ceremony, Charest said that the changes to the cabinet &#8220;emphasize the strengths of the people involved,&#8221; while being focused on Quebec&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This team is the best equipped to deal with the unique economic changes faced by Quebec,&#8221; said Charest. &#8220;This team is made of men and women who have learned to work together.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ministers with new portfolios<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Monique Gagnon-Tremblay<\/em>, Minister of Intergovernmental Relations, La Francophonie, and the Eastern Townships (formerly Government Administration and President of the Treasury Board)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Jean-Marc Fournier<\/em>, Minister of Justice, and Reform of Democratic Institutions. Will become House Leader if elected<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Line Beauchamp<\/em>, Education, Recreation and Sports. (formerly Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks )<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Michelle Courchesne<\/em>, President of Treasury Board, Minister of Government Administration and Government Services, and responsible for Laval, Laurentians and Lanaudiere (formerly Education)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Raymond Bachand<\/em>, Minister of Finance, Revenue, and Montreal (adds Revenue, which was held by Dutil)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Julie Boulet<\/em>, Minister of Employment and Social Solidarity, Region of Mauricie (formerly Minister of Transport)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Sam Hamad<\/em>, Minister of Transport and Quebec City region (formerly Employment and Social Solidarity, and Labour)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Robert Dutil<\/em>, Minister of Public Security (was Revenue minister. takes over part of Jacques Dupuis&#8217;s portfolio)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Pierre Arcand<\/em>, Minister of Sustainable Development (was Intergovernmental Relations)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Kathleen Weil<\/em>, Minister of Immigration and Cultural Communities (formerly Justice)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Lise Theriault<\/em>, Minister of Labour (formerly Social Services)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Dominique Vien<\/em>, Minister of Social Services (formerly Government Services)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ministers that don&#8217;t change<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Nathalie Normandeau<\/em>, Deputy Premier, Minister of Natural Resources and Wildlife, Northern Plan, Gasp\u00e9sie-\u00eeles-de-la-Madeleine region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Yves Bolduc<\/em>, Minister of Health and Social Services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Clement Gignac<\/em>, Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Claude Bechard<\/em>, remains Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Chair of the Comit\u00e9 minist\u00e9riel de la prosp\u00e9rit\u00e9 \u00e9conomique et du d\u00e9veloppement durable, responsible for the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, Deputy Government House Leader (no longer responsible for Intergovernmental Relations and Democratic Reform)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Norman MacMillan<\/em>, Minister for Transport, responsible for the Outaouais region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Marguerite Blais<\/em>, Minister responsible for Seniors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Pierre Corbeil<\/em>, Minister responsible for Aboriginal Affairs, responsible for the Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue region and the Nord-du-Qu\u00e9bec region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Nicole M\u00e9nard<\/em>, Minister of Tourism, responsible for the Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Serge Simard<\/em>, Minister for Natural Resources and Wildlife, responsible for the Saguenay-Lac\/Saint-Jean region and the C\u00f4te-Nord region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Christine St-Pierre<\/em>, Minister of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Yolande James <\/em>remains Minister of Families (loses Immigration and Cultural Communities)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec has a new lineup of cabinet ministers, including one person who has yet to be elected to the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday morning in the red room of the National Assembly, Premier Jean Charest presented his new cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One new member, but all familiar faces, in Cabinet shuffle - Jarislowsky Chair in Public Sector Management<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/secteur-public-sector.ca\/en\/cabinet-shuffle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One new member, but all familiar faces, in Cabinet shuffle - Jarislowsky Chair in Public Sector Management\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Quebec has a new lineup of cabinet ministers, including one person who has yet to be elected to the National Assembly. 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