Saturday, June 8, 2013

New BC Cabinet

Yesterday - BC Premier Christy Clark announced her Executive Council (Cabinet).  Rich Coleman and Mike De Jong returned to their previous posts as Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance but there were some key surprises:

Coralee Oakes (Cariboo-North) - Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development.  Good fit given her previous experience as a two-term Quesnel City Councillor and as this Portfolio works with UBCM - her relationship with the current UBCM President (and Quesnel Mayor) Mary Sjostrom is also a side-benefit to ensuring this Ministry works with all local governments

Todd Stone (Kamloops-South) - Minister of Transportation.  This is a Ministry I didn't expect he'd get.  I thought someone like Peter Fassbender would get it, given the huge debate over transportation and related matters in Metro Vancouver

Read the full list of Cabinet Ministers and their Parliamentary Secretaries here

Watch below as Clark introduces her Executive Council:

1 comment:

Alan Forseth said...

Definitely a strange choice for Mintry of Highways --- interesting as well that with all his knowledge in Enviro, and especially with all the time on Enbridge, Pipeline twinning project, and the AJAX Mine, that Terry Lake was moved to health??