"New" Provincial Cabinet

BC Premier Gordon Campbell made some major changes to his Cabinet and here they are:

Premier – Hon. Gordon Campbell


Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation – Hon. Barry Penner


Agriculture – Hon. Ben Stewart


Attorney General – Hon. Mike de Jong


Children and Family Development – Hon. Mary Polak


Citizens’ Services – Hon. Mary McNeil


Community, Sport and Cultural Development – Hon. Stephanie Cadieux


Education – Hon. George Abbott


Energy – Hon. Bill Bennett


Environment – Hon. Murray Coell


Minister of State for Climate Action – Hon. John Yap


Finance and Deputy Premier (Minister Responsible for Small Business) – Hon. Colin Hansen


Forests, Mines and Lands – Hon. Pat Bell


Minister of State for Mining – Hon. Randy Hawes


Health Services – Hon. Kevin Falcon


Labour – Hon. Iain Black


Natural Resource Operations – Hon. Steve Thomson


Public Safety and Solicitor General (Minister Responsible for Housing) Hon. Rich Coleman


Minister of State for Building Code Renewal – Hon. Naomi Yamamoto


Regional Economic and Skills Development – Hon. Moira Stilwell


Science and Universities – Hon. Ida Chong


Social Development – Hon. Kevin Krueger


Tourism, Trade and Investment (Minister Responsible for the Intergovernmental Relations Secretariat) – Hon. Margaret MacDiarmid


Transportation and Infrastructure – Hon. Shirley Bond

Your Parliamentary Secretaries are:

Parliamentary Secretary for the Asia-Pacific Initiative to the Minister of Tourism, Trade and Investment – Richard Lee


Parliamentary Secretary for Health Promotion to the Minister of Health Services – Terry Lake

Parliamentary Secretary for HST Information to the Minister of Finance – John Les

Parliamentary Secretary for the Mountain Pine Beetle Action Committees to the Minister of Regional Economic and Skills Development – Donna Barnett

Parliamentary Secretary for Multiculturalism to the Minister of Regional Economic and Skills Development – Dave Hayer

Parliamentary Secretary for the Natural Gas Initiative to the Minister of Energy – Pat Pimm

Parliamentary Secretary for Silviculture to the Minister of Forests, Mines and Lands – John Rustad

Parliamentary Secretary for Social Entrepreneurship to the Minister of Finance – Gordon Hogg

Note: It'll be interesting to see how the Premier follows this up tomorrow night with his speech to British Columbians.  In any event, the fall-out has started.  The new Energy Minister has let it be known that he is upset that the Premier did not consult the Caucus or Cabinet with regard to the changes.  See that story here

Also - Vaughn Palmer and Mike Smyth (Political Columnists for Vancouver Sun/Province) provide their analysis on the cabinet changes here (Palmer) and here (Smyth)