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Ontario Provincial Cabinet

Ontario Provincial Cabinet. Eleanor Lau Chris Chung Jenny Lu. Cabinet Ministers. (28 in total). Dalton McGuinty placed Gerard Kennedy, runner-up in the Liberal leadership race, in his cabinet and appointed him to the prestigious role of Minister of Education in 2003 when he won government .

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Ontario Provincial Cabinet

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  1. Ontario Provincial Cabinet Eleanor LauChris ChungJenny Lu

  2. Cabinet Ministers (28 in total)

  3. Dalton McGuinty placed Gerard Kennedy, runner-up in the Liberal leadership race, in his cabinet and appointed him to the prestigious role of Minister of Education in 2003 when he won government  Former Minister of Education Gerard Kennedy Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty

  4. Composition of Cabinet • Ability • Loyalty • Experiences • Age • Gender • Ethnicity • Geography • Occupation

  5. Ability A minister should be able to • handle written material • speak clearly • answer questions in legislature factually • listen to the public and advisors • have independent judgment

  6. Ability • Specialized knowledge not all that vital to the appropriateness of a member • Specialized knowledge can bring disadvantages such as conflicts of interest • Upon investigation, the Cabinet consists of more generalists than specialists

  7. Loyalty and Experiences • Monique Smith was first elected as aMember of Provincial Parliament for the Liberals in 2003 • Even before that, she served McGuinty in his Opposition Leader’s Office in 1997 • Gerry Phillips has been an MPP for the liberals since 1987

  8. Loyalty and Experiences • By adding new faces, when core ministers start to age, the Cabinet will still have ministers with experience to rely on • Overall, McGuinty selected a Cabinet of experienced ministers, as several of them have had many years of experience in the political area 

  9. Age • The average age of the Ontario cabinet is 53 • It may be difficult to rejuvenate the Cabinet and also for the Cabinet to improve the capacity to develop new ideas

  10. Gender • The ratio of males to females is over 2:1

  11. Ethnicity • Simply by looking at the portraits of our Cabinet, we were only able to spot 3 visible minorities • Upon investigation we discovered a minister from the Netherlands, two French Canadians, one Italian minister, and one minister from Portugal

  12. Geography • Large number of ministers representing Ottawa and Toronto • Southern Ontario is represented well, but not so much Northern Ontario • Probably attributed to the fact that most of Ontario’s population is concentrated in the southern area

  13. Occupation • Members of the Ontario cabinet have had a variety of past occupations including an insurance broker, entrepreneurs, an athlete, consultants, mayors, publicists, a nurse, a musician, and an accountant

  14. Sexual Orientation • The Deputy Premier and Minister of Education are both homosexual • Better representation in parliament of changing public views

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