Prime Minister Stephen Harper's micro-shuffle today involved David Emerson, Michael Fortier, Christian Paradis, and James Moore. It is Harper's fourth cabinet configuration. Here's some numbers on the current set-up:
Positions:
Prime Minister: 1
Ministers: 26
Secretarys of State: 5
Gender:
Men: 25
Women: 7
Stability:
There are nine ministers who have the same jobs they had from Harper's original cabinet of February, 2006: Harper (PM), Blackburn (Labour), Thompson (Veterans Affairs), Lunn (Natural Resources), Clement (Health), Flaherty (Finance), Hearn (Fisheries), Day (Public Safety), Cannon (Transport).
Provincial breakdown:
Ontario: 10
B.C.: 6
Alberta: 6
Quebec: 5
Saskatchewan: 1
Manitoba: 1
Nova Scotia: 1
New Brunswick: 1
Newfoundland: 1
PEI: 0
Nunavut: 0
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