Marjorie Michel, the Haitian-Canadian Appointed Minister of Health
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 3 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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Canadian Prime Minister Marck Carney announced, this Tuesday, May 13, 2025, the composition of Canada's new Council of Ministers. Among the 14 women in the ministerial cabinet is Haitian-Canadian Majory Michel, freshly elected as Member of Parliament for Papineau in Montreal. She holds the position of Minister of Health. This gender-balanced Council of Ministers is composed of 28 people: 14 women, 14 men, and 10 Secretaries of State.
The other members of the government are: Shafqat Ali, President of the Treasury Board; Rebecca Alty, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations; Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety; François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue; Rebecca Chartrand, Minister of Northern Affairs and the Arctic and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency; Julie Dabrusin,
As Minister of Environment and Climate Change; we find Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency; Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Transport and Internal Trade; Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages; Mandy Gull-Masty, Minister of Indigenous Services; Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario; Tim Hodgson.
The portfolio of Energy and Natural Resources; Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Economic Development Canada for the Quebec Regions; Dominic LeBlanc, President of the King's Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-United States Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs, and the Canadian Economic Union; Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement; Heath MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food; Steven MacKinnon, Government House Leader; David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defence; Jill McKnight, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence; Lena Metlege Diab,
Other personalities holding ministerial positions include Eleanor Olszewski, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship; Minister of Emergency Preparedness and Community Resilience and Minister responsible for Economic Development Canada for the Prairies; Gregor Robertson, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Economic Development Canada for the Pacific; Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade; Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario; Joanne Thompson, Minister of Fisheries and Rechie Valdez, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism),



