2006/01/27

More speculations on PM-designate Harper's ministry

So, February 6th will be the date the designate becomes Prime Minister Harper in Rideau Hall. That's when the Hon. Mr. Harper become the Right Honourable. (The honourific "Honourable" denotes membership to the Queen's Privy Council of Canada. Prime Minister Martin's government in 2004 conferred it to Mr. Harper as he was Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.) Anyway, the Toronto Star on January 27th had a biographical article on Lawrence Cannon as a Conservative Member of Parliament with previous cabinet experience. Now if past provincial cabinet membership makes a MP suitable to serve in Prime Minister Harper's ministry, then the following people will have the odds in favour. Loyal Hearn (M.P., St. John's South-Mount Pearl) was a former education minister of Newfoundland. Lawrence Cannon (M.P., Pontiac) was a former communication minister of Québec. John Baird (M.P., Ottawa West-Nepean) was successively Minister of Community and Social Services, Government Whip and Minister of Energy in Ontario. Jim Flaherty (M.P., Whitby-Oshawa) served in the Ontario Government as Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance, Minister of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation, the Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Native Affairs, Minister of Labour, and Solicitor General and Minister of Correctional Services in various times. Tony Clement (M.P., Parry Sound-Muskoka) was Ontario Minister of Health, Minister of Municipal Affairs & Housing, Minister of Environment and Minister of Transportation. Vic Toews (M.P., Provencher) was Minister of Labour, and the Attorney General and Minister of Justice for the Province of Manitoba. Brian Pallister (M.P., Portage-Lisgar) was Manitoba Minister of Government Services. Stockwell Day (M.P., Okanagan-Coquihalla, B.C.) was Chief Whip, Government House Leader, Minister of Labour, Minister of Social Services, and Provincial Treasurer (Minister of Finance) and acting Premier of Alberta. Finally, the following people were former Conservative cabinet ministers in the governments of Prime Ministers Mulroney and Campbell. Serving in Prime Minister Mulroney's government were current B.C. Senator Gerry St. Germain who was Minister of State (Transport) and Minister of Forestry, B.C. Senator Pat Carney who was Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Minister of International Trade and President of the Treasury Board, and current Québec Senator Andrée Champagne who was Minister of State for Youth. Serving in Prime Minister Campbell's government were Hon. Rob Nicholson (M.P., Niagara Falls, Ontario) who was Minister of Science and Small Business and Hon. Garth Turner (M.P, Halton, Ontario) who was Minister of National Revenue. The following people are also notable. Senator John Buchanan was Premier of Nova Scotia. Senator Hugh Segal was Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Mulroney and Associate Secretary of the Ontario Cabinet in Premier Bill Davis's government. Ontario Senator Majory LeBreton worked for over thirty-one years in the service of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and four of its National Leaders, the Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker, Hon. Robert L. Stanfield, Prime Minister Joe Clark and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

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