Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Okanagan MLA's In Cabinet

107.5 Kiss FM Wednesday, 10 June 2009

The appointments are:

George Abbott - Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation. Abbott had been health minister.

Kash Heed - Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General. Heed is a former police chief and a new MLA.

Mary Polak - Minister of Children and Family Development. Polak had been minister of healthy living and sport.

Bill Bennett - Minister of Community and Rural Development. Bennett had been minister of tourism, culture and the arts.

Blair Lekstrom - Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, a post he keeps from last term.

Randy Hawes - Minister of State for Mining. He was chief government whip last term.

Ben Stewart - Minister of Citizen's Services. Stewart is a new MLA.

Margaret MacDiarmid - Minister of Education. MacDiarmid is a new MLA.

Moira Stilwell - Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development. Stilwell is a new MLA.

Steve Thomson - Minister of Agriculture and Lands. Thomson is a new MLA.

Barry Penner - Minister of Environment, the same post he held last term.

John Yap - Minister of State for Climate Action. He has been elected from the backbench.

Colin Hansen - Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier, the same post he held last term.

Pat Bell - Minister of Forests and Range, the same file he held last term.

Kevin Falcon - Minister of Health Services. He had been transportation minister.

Ida Chong - Minister of Healthy Living and Sport. She had been minister of small business, technology and economic development and minister responsible for the Asia-Pacific Initiative in the last term.

Mary McNeil -Minister of State for the Olympics and ActNow BC. McNeil is a new MLA.

Rich Coleman - Minister of Housing and Social Development, the same post he held last term.

Murray Coell - Minister of Labour. He was the minister of advanced education and labour market development in the last term.

Iain Black - Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development. He was the minister of labour and citizens' services last term.

Kevin Krueger - Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts. He was Minister of Community Development in the last term.

Shirley Bond - Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure. She had been education minister.

Naomi Yamamoto - Minister of State for Intergovernmental Relations. She is a new MLA.

Mike de Jong - Attorney General and Government House Leader, a post he takes over from Wally Oppal who was not re-elected.

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