Mark Carney looks to break with Trudeau era with new cabinet

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will try to make a clean break with the past on Tuesday with a cabinet full of fresh faces and a series of new “junior minister” positions. Carney will assemble a “small, focused” cabinet of less than 30 ministers and up to 10 secretaries of state, said a source within the Prime Minister’s Office . It’s one of the ways Carney will try to distance himself from the unpopular tenure of his predecessor, former prime minister Justin Trudeau. The secretaries of state will be members of the Privy Council and will be responsible for key issues and priorities within a federal department, added the source, but will only be invited to cabinet meetings when decisions associated with their responsibilities arise. The swearing-in ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. More to come. National Post 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 daily newsletter, Posted, here.