Former New Democrat MP Glenn Thibeault is Ontario’s new energy minister following a cabinet shuffle by Premier Kathleen Wynne, who also created several new ministries.Thibeault was lured from the NDP by Wynne to run as a provincial Liberal in a 2015 byelection in Sudbury, and was rewarded Monday with a promotion to cabinet. Six other new faces were promoted to cabinet, including Eleanor McMahon in Tourism, Culture and Sport; Kathryn McGarry in Natural Resources and Forestry; Marie-France Lalonde in Consumer Services; and Indira Naidoo-Harris as associate minister of finance. Mitzie Hunter will become Ontario’s new Minister of Education, replacing Liz Sandals, who becomes president of the Treasury Board. Michael Chan moves from Citizenship and Immigration to the new Ministry of International Trade, while Yasir Naqvi will become attorney general. Wynne says 40 per cent of the cabinet is women, and defends expanding the size of her executive council, insisting the new ministries are needed to implement key parts of the Liberal agenda. Group photos of the new cabinet were taken indoors in this fine June day. The reason was the lockdown and terror scare ongoing at nearby University of Toronto.
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