The cupboard reshuffle came across Carney’s swearing-in ceremony as Canada’s new Prime Minister on Friday 14 March, following his landslide victory within the Liberal management race introduced on March 10.
Miller has been changed by Rachel Bendayan, previously the minister of official languages and affiliate minister of public security beneath Trudeau. Bendayan is one in every of 11 feminine ministers in Carney’s 24-member cupboard.
Holding varied authorities positions since being elected to parliament in 2019, Bendayan was the primary Canadian of Moroccan descent to affix the federal authorities.
Whereas a change of tack concerning immigration is unlikely till after the federal election, worldwide schooling stakeholders are hopeful about Miller’s successor who will head up Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
“Canada is due for a reset on the immigration file. The previous minister rode a wave of destructive sentiment to make Canada really feel more and more unwelcoming to worldwide college students and their members of the family,” Canadian immigration lawyer Matthew McDonald informed The PIE Information.
“My hope is that Minister Rachel Bendayan will carry a extra optimistic spirit to the nation’s immigration dialog,” he added.
Primarily based on Bendayan’s position as minister for official languages, McDonald stated he anticipated she would proceed IRCC’s dedication to the prominence of the French language in everlasting residence packages.
Bendayan’s authorized background additionally means that she might proceed the “technocratic strategy” to coverage seen of her predecessor, he added.
The previous minister rode a wave of destructive sentiment to make Canada really feel more and more unwelcoming to worldwide college students
Matthew McDonald, Canadian Immigration Companies
“We’re altering how issues work, so our authorities can ship to Canadians quicker – and we have now an skilled staff that’s made to fulfill the second we’re in. Our authorities is united and robust, and we’re getting proper to work,” stated Prime Minister Carney.
Carney, previously head of the Financial institution of Canada and Financial institution of England, and a relative political newcomer, will succeed Justin Trudeau as relations sizzling up between the US and Canada over Donald Trump’s commerce battle towards its northern neighbour.
Trudeau’s giant cupboard was made up of 37 ministers, together with his longtime private pal and the perfect man at his wedding ceremony, immigration minister Marc Miller.
Carney himself by no means sat on Trudeau’s cupboard, which was a part of his attraction to some Liberal voters.
Whereas a number of Trudeau stalwarts have been dropped from Carney’s cupboard, there may be nonetheless appreciable overlap and solely three new faces, which Carney’s staff stated would guarantee “continuity”.
We’re altering how issues work, so our authorities can ship to Canadians quicker
Mark Carney, Canadian Prime Minister
Within the absence of an schooling minister on the federal degree, Miller has delivered most of the turbulent coverage adjustments in worldwide larger schooling over the previous 14 months. He has change into infamous within the sector for repeatedly doing so on a Friday afternoon.
Throughout this time, Canadian establishments have been delivered examine allow caps, twice, restrictions on post-graduate work alternatives and procedural adjustments round recruiting and enrolling worldwide college students, amongst myriad additional disruptions.
Towards the backdrop of a current improve in anti-immigration sentiment throughout Canada, McDonald stated that Bendayan had “the chance to grab this existential second for Canada and reinforce that we’re a rustic whose previous, current, and future is an immigration story”.
Earlier statements made by Carney about tackling Canada’s housing disaster, prioritising these already in Canada for everlasting residency and lowering momentary international employee ranges counsel the federal government’s ongoing immigration coverage will largely align with Miller’s going ahead.
Whereas Carney has not explicitly stated something about limiting worldwide college students, he has beforehand voiced issues about establishments’ reliance on worldwide college students and has advocated for elevated funding for postsecondary schooling.
Beneath Canada’s present immigration ranges plan, the federal government is aiming to cut back momentary residents together with worldwide college students and momentary employees to five% of the full inhabitants by 2027.
Canada’s subsequent federal election is presently scheduled for October, although there may be hypothesis that Carney might name an election earlier than parliament is predicted to return on March 24.
