Premier Danielle Smith announced the members of her new cabinet during a swearing-in ceremony held Friday at Government House in Edmonton.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith holds a press conference with her new cabinet ministers in Edmonton on Friday.
"Together we'll form a government that will listen to all voices and represent all Albertans," Smith said at a news conference after her new ministers were sworn-in. Nine of the new members of cabinet are from Calgary. The cabinet only has five women — Smith, Rebecca Schulz, Tanya Fir, Rajan Sawhney, and Adriana LaGrange.
Smith, herself, has publicly stated that she is pro-choice. She repeated that positiom on Friday. She said LaGrange will be focused on solving problems in the health-care system like a shortage of family doctors and wait times for EMS, surgeries and the ER.Nate Horner, who served as minister of agriculture and irrigation in the last government, is the province's new minister of finance, a position his cousin Doug Horner held a decade ago under former premier Alison Redford.
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