Stelmach Cabinet Shuffle

[LChoy]

The Cabinet has been shuffled
Biggest surprise is that the Health Minister is now Gene Zwozdesky, from Aboriginal Affairs before. He's suppose to be a much calmer and more communicative Minister than Liepert.

New cabinet

Deputy premier, Minister of Advanced Education — Doug Horner
(Horner is the newly minted deputy premier, but has held the role of advanced education minister since 2008)

Minister of Finance — Ted Morton (NEW)

Minister of Education, government house leader — Dave Hancock

President of the Treasury Board — Lloyd Snelgrove

Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations — Iris Evans (NEW)

Minister of Energy — Ron Liepert (NEW)

Minister of Transportation — Luke Ouellette

Minister of Sustainable Resource Development — Mel Knight (NEW)

Minister of Justice — Alison Redford

Minister of Environment — Rob Renner

Minister of Health — Gene Zwozdesky (NEW)

Minister of Children and Youth Services — Yvonne Fritz (NEW)

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development — Jack Hayden (NEW)

Minister of Infrastructure — Ray Danyluk (NEW)

Minister of Seniors and Community Supports — Mary Anne Jablonski

Minister of Culture and Community Spirit — Lindsay Blackett

Minister of Service Alberta — Heather Klimchuk

Minister of Tourism, Parks and Recreation — Cindy Ady

Minister of Municipal Affairs — Hector Goudreau (NEW)

Solicitor General — Frank Oberle (NEW)

Minister of Aboriginal Relations — Len Webber (NEW)

Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs — Jonathan Denis (NEW)

Minister of Employment and Immigration — Thomas Lukaszuk (NEW)

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/...795/story.html

[mariners_fever]

Meh. Putting Morton there is for optics. We'll see if he's actually allowed to bring fiscal conservatism back to the post as we would expect.

[Bertuzzied]

Until Farmer Ed is shuffled out of the Premier's seat, nothing changes.

[HotHotHeat]

Minister of Culture and Community Spirit — Lindsay Blackett


Exactly what does this person do? Seriously.

[mariners_fever]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

Minister of Culture and Community Spirit — Lindsay Blackett


Exactly what does this person do? Seriously.

He initiates things such as Bill 44 which then brings about negative rights as opposed to protecting positive rights. Then provides a defense against being homophobic by pulling out of Edmonton's Pride Parade.

[WilsonFourTwo]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

Minister of Culture and Community Spirit — Lindsay Blackett


Exactly what does this person do? Seriously.

More to the point, why does the province need 23 Ministers in Cabinet? Seems a little excessive. A cabinet post for every ~150,000 people?

Decent shuffle overall, I suppose. Sorry though Ed, I still don't think it gets you re-elected.

[mariners_fever]

Originally Posted by WilsonFourTwo

More to the point, why does the province need 23 Ministers in Cabinet? Seems a little excessive. A cabinet post for every ~150,000 people?

Decent shuffle overall, I suppose. Sorry though Ed, I still don't think it gets you re-elected.

We don't need 23 cabinet members. When a party becomes dynastic as the PCs have and hold 70/82 seats (might be off by one or two), creating more cabinet posts is an effective way to keep more backbenchers happy preventing party dissension.

[Slava]

They had 24 ministers under everyones favorite fiscal conservative though. The debt slayer himself, Ralph Klein.

[Azure]

Interesting that Morton is finance minister.

He is very fiscally conservative.

[Muta]

Lindsay Blackett is very supportive of things like the Youth Singers of Calgary and the new National Music Centre, which are / will be important entities for youth organizations and musical programs witihn this province. He represents an element of society in the same way that the rest of the ministers do. He's a very open-minded and intelligent individual, I've had the opportunity to hear him speak several times.

[HOZ]

Shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by HOZ

Shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic

Exactly ... unfortunately it's going to take at least another two years to sink this sucker.

[Ashartus]

Originally Posted by Muta

Lindsay Blackett is very supportive of things like the Youth Singers of Calgary and the new National Music Centre, which are / will be important entities for youth organizations and musical programs witihn this province. He represents an element of society in the same way that the rest of the ministers do. He's a very open-minded and intelligent individual, I've had the opportunity to hear him speak several times.

I thought he showed some promise at first, but his role in Bill 44 made me lose a lot of respect for him, and he doesn't seem to have done anything of note since to make me change my mind.

[mariners_fever]

Originally Posted by Muta

Lindsay Blackett is very supportive of things like the Youth Singers of Calgary and the new National Music Centre, which are / will be important entities for youth organizations and musical programs witihn this province. He represents an element of society in the same way that the rest of the ministers do. He's a very open-minded and intelligent individual, I've had the opportunity to hear him speak several times.

I wouldn't call him intelligent after the convocation speech he laid on ACAD last year. It went something like this:

The Conservatives love the arts. But in order for the Conservatives to continue loving the arts, you need to continue voting for the Conservatives.

Seeing as when MLAs and ministers speak at convocations they are supposed to be there simply as a member of government congratulating the convocated and not in a partisan role, that plug was absolutely disgusting.

It's great that he's supportive of those things, but really, isn't anyone who's half-human?

[Wookie]

Originally Posted by Azure

Interesting that Morton is finance minister.

He is very fiscally conservative.

Prepare for some incredible cuts!