Carney's new cabinet produced many winners and the losers. Here are a few

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet includes many new faces and several notable names who have been left out, including several Trudeau-era cabinet ministers.  Here’s a look at the winners and losers in Carney’s first cabinet since the April federal election. Winners: Sean Fraser and Anita Anand  Two ministers have returned who only months ago called it quits, only to change their mind and seek reelection once the Liberals’ fortunes started improving under Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war captured Canadians’ attention. Anita Anand, who former prime minister Justin Trudeau first named to cabinet after she was first elected in 2019 and who served as the minister for procurement, national defence, the treasury board and internal trade, will become Carney’s minster of foreign affairs. Former foreign affairs minister Melanie Joly, who has served in that file since 2021, will assume the industry file. Sean Fraser will return as Canada’s justice minister and attorney general. It marks the latest big file he has been trusted with by a prime minister, after Trudeau previously named him to immigration and housing. He will have another large file on his plate, as Carney has pledged to make Criminal Code changes to toughen bail access for those charged in car thefts, home invasions, human trafficking and smuggling. Losers: Family and academic career When Fraser, who was first elected in 2015 and entered cabinet in 2021, announced back in December he would not be seeking reelection, he cited his desire to be a father who spent more time with his children. Three months later, Fraser pointed to the ongoing Canada-U.S. trade war , saying he wanted to show his children there are some fights worth fighting. Anand had said she intended to return to her academic career when she announced in January she would not stand for reelection and was not seeking Liberal party leadership. In explaining her return, she also pointed to the trade war and the need to remove interprovincial trade barriers, which was a file she had been working on. Winner: Tim Hodgson  The rookie member of Parliament for the Greater Toronto Area riding of Markham-Thornhill, Tim Hodgson, will begin his career in Parliament as a cabinet minister in charge of energy and natural resources. It comes at a particularly important time, as more provinces are warming to energy projects like pipelines getting built in order to lessen Canada’s economic dependence on the U.S. Hodgson’s name was among the new members rumoured to be entering cabinet, given he last served as the chair of Hydro One and CEO at Goldman Sachs Canada. He also previously served as a special advisor to Carney, when he was governor of the Bank of Canada.  Losers: Jonathan Wilkinson and Carlos Leitão Hodgson takes over at energy and natural resources from Jonathan Wilkinson, who had served in cabinet since 2019, first as environment minister and then later at natural resources. Carney will be hoping that Hodgson can soothe relations between Ottawa and Western premiers like Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, who have been highly critical of Trudeau’s energy policies. Carlos Leitão was another name circulating as a potential cabinet pick for Carney, given he had served as Quebec’s finance minister. However, that turned out not to be the case. Leitão will now join Charles Sousa, a former Ontario finance minister, as backbench Liberal MPs. Winner: Chrystia Freeland  Chrystia Freeland will remain in cabinet, despite her previous ties to Trudeau, which she severed back in December when she resigned as finance minister, setting off a series of events that led to his resignation weeks later. Freeland, who placed a distant second to Carney in the Liberal leadership contest, will remain at transport and internal trade, which he named her to shortly after his win. Carney has said tearing down interprovincial trade barriers is a top priority for his government. Losers: Karina Gould, Marc Miller Karina Gould, who also ran against Carney in the Liberal leadership race and was a prominent face of Trudeau’s government, did not find herself back in cabinet. The same goes for Marc Miller, who had last served as Trudeau’s immigration minister when the government announced it was making dramatic cuts to immigration levels. Miller had also served as minister for Indigenous services and Crown-Indigenous relations. He is also a personal friend of the former prime minister. Winner: Francois-Philippe Champagne Francois-Philippe Champagne will remain as finance minister, the most senior role of any government. He will have to deliver the Carney government’s first budget once the House of Commons returns later this month. Carney had named Champagne, who was last at industry, to the role back in March. When recently asked by reporters whether he intended on keeping Champagne in the role, Carney jokingly asked if that question came from him. Losers: Bill Blair While Trudeau veterans like Champagne, Joly and Dominic LeBlanc were kept in cabinet, Bill Blair was a notable name who was not. Blair, first elected in 2015, had served as the minister of national defence before the election. That role will now be filled by David McGuinty, who previously oversaw public safety. Gary Anandasangaree has been named as as public safety minister, moving over from justice. National defence has become a more critical file since Trump’s election, as the president has named Canada’s military spending as one of his main irritants. Carney has also said he wants to work with the Trump administration on both security and trade. Winners: Wayne Long Long is one of the new faces from the Liberal backbenches to enter cabinet as a secretary of state for Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions. The New Brunswick MP was the first person in the Liberal caucus to publicly call for Trudeau to resign last year, after the party lost a longtime seat in a Toronto byelection, which it recaptured in the recent federal election. Losers: Kody Blois, Ali Ehassi, Nate Erskine-Smith and Rachel Bendayan Kody Blois, Ali Ehassi and Rachel Bendayan were promoted when Carney named his first cabinet in March, but were left out this time around. Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson who was successfully elected in Vancouver Fraserview–South Burnaby will take over housing from Nate Erskine-Smith, who was one of the last new faces Trudeau named to his cabinet back in December. National Post staylor@postmedia.com Get more deep-dive National Post political coverage and analysis in your inbox with the Political Hack newsletter, where Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson and political analyst Tasha Kheiriddin get at what’s really going on behind the scenes on Parliament Hill every Wednesday and Friday, exclusively for subscribers. Sign up here. Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark nationalpost.com and sign up for our politics newsletter, First Reading, here.