Scheer unveils his first shadow cabinet
The first shadow cabinet under the new Conservative Party of Canada leader has been announced. It does contain some pro-life MP appointments as bright spots. However, the exclusion of leadership candidate, Brad Trost, who placed 4th overall while running on a socially conservative platform - and whose downballot support was the key to Scheer's victory - is disrespectful towards Trost, and even moreso towards the tens of thousands of social conservative voters brought in by Trost and by 6th place Pierre Lemieux, who also ran as an outspoken life/family advocate.
It was the downballot support of Lemieux and Trost voters, motivated by pro-life/pro-family issues, which crowned Scheer as leader in his razor-thin victory over Maxime Bernier. By snubbing Trost, it gives the appearance that Scheer is distancing himself from the party's social conservative base. That's a dangerous prospect for the party... and the country.
CLC has compiled a complete listing of all the shadow cabinet appointments along with their ratings on life and family issues. There are 10 pro-lifers and 7 pro-aborts. In addition, Scheer appointed 19 individuals whom CLC has currently rated with a cautionary amber light. An amber light means that either not enough is known about their stance on moral issues to rate them definitively, or that the person is "educable" but not fully pro-life.
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Ziad Aboultaif (AB) |
International Development |
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Dan Albas (BC) |
Small Business |
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Dean Allison (ON) |
International Trade |
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John Barlow (AB) |
Agriculture and Agri-Food (Associate) |
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Maxime Bernier (QC) |
Innovation, Science and Economic Development |
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Luc Berthold (QC) |
Agriculture and Agri-Food |
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James Bezan (MB) |
National Defence |
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| Steven Blaney (QC) | Veterans Affairs |  |
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Kelly Block (SK) |
Transport |
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Michael Chong (ON) |
Infrastructure, Communities and Urban Affairs |
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Tony Clement (ON) |
Public Services and Procurement |
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Gerard Deltell (QC) |
Treasury Board |
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Todd Doherty (BC) |
Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, and the Asia-Pacific Gateway |
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Ed Fast (BC) |
Environment and Climate Change |
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Marilyn Gladu (ON) |
Health |
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Rachael Harder (AB) |
Status of Women |
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Matt Jeneroux (AB) |
Science |
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Pat Kelly (AB) |
National Revenue
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Peter Kent (ON) |
Ethics |
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Cathy McLeod (BC) |
Crown-Indigenous and Northern Affairs, Indigenous Services and the Canadian |
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Rob Moore (NB) |
Atlantic Issues and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency |
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Rob Nicholson (ON) |
Justice |
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Alex Nuttall (ON) |
Youth, Sport and Persons with Disabilities |
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Erin O’Toole (ON) |
Foreign Affairs |
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Pierre Paul-Hus (QC) |
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness |
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Pierre Poilievre (ON) |
Finance and National Capital Commission |
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Alain Rayes (QC) |
Intergovernmental Affairs |
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Scott Reid (ON) |
Democratic Institutions |
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Michelle Rempel (AB) |
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship |
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Bob Saroya (ON) |
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (Associate) |
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Shannon Stubbs (AB) |
Natural Resources |
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Peter Van Loan (ON) |
Canadian Heritage and National Historic Sites |
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Karen Vecchio (ON) |
Families, Children and Social Development |
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Dianne Watts (BC) |
Employment, Workforce Development and Labour |
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Alice Wong (BC) |
Seniors |
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