Huge turnover leaves gaps in key portfolios for BC NDP government
Premier David Eby has begun the earliest stages of crafting his next cabinet, after a week of one-on-one phone calls with MLAs.Five ministers were defeated in the election — including Education Minister Rachna Singh, Agriculture Minister Pam Alexis, Lands Minister Nathan Cullen and ministers of state Dan Coulter and Andrew Mercier.
The first step for Eby will be to determine if he even keeps a 28-person cabinet, or if he starts redrawing ministries and creating new ones. Does the premier want the next finance minister to stand up to him, and try to actually rein in spending? Or, is it a paper position to produce a budget where all the decisions are already made out of the premier’s office?
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