Prime Minister Carney holds his first meeting with new cabinet this morning

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with his new cabinet this morning. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. on Parliament Hill. Carney shook up his cabinet Tuesday by moving some key players into new positions and promoting 24 new faces in a move meant to signal change at the top. While some members of his team were prominent figures in former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government — including Dominic LeBlanc, Mélanie Joly, Chrystia Freeland and François-Philippe Champagne — Carney froze out other prominent members of his predecessor’s cabinet. Carney named 28 full ministers to his cabinet and also appointed a second tier of 10 secretaries of state. The prime minister has dropped several cabinet veterans from the Trudeau years, including former natural resources minister…

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