Ontario Premier Doug Ford has named a new cabinet with many familiar faces, though he has shuffled his housing and education ministers.
Paul Calandra moves from housing to become the education minister, taking over from Jill Dunlop, Simcoe North MPP, who moves to emergency preparedness.
Lt.-Gov. Edith Dumont is swearing in the premier and his executive council in a ceremony at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Ford has kept the cabinet the same size, which he had increased since he was first elected in 2018, and his last cabinet grew to 37 people in August after he brought new associate ministers on board.
Sylvia Jones remains deputy premier and health minister while Peter Bethlenfalvy continues as finance minister.
Doug Downey, Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte MPP, keeps his gig as Attorney General, while Barrie-Innisfil MPP Andre Khanjin has been shuffled out of the environment portfolio and is now Minister of Red Tape Reduction.
Ford signalled beforehand he wasn't going to change his leadership group much.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 19, 2025.
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