WINNIPEG — Manitoba's new premier, Wab Kinew, and his cabinet have been sworn in with a ceremony that featured traditional Indigenous music and dancing.
"The people of this province have come together to declare that we are one people, one Manitoba, who are going to build one future together." The NDP captured 34 of the 57 legislature seats on election night, and Kinew had many veteran politicians and rookies from which to pick his cabinet. A New Democrat with previous cabinet experience, Ron Kostyshyn, has become the agriculture minister for the second time. He had the same portfolio under former premier Greg Selinger before losing his seat in 2016.
Murray Sinclair, a former judge and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, said he was honoured to congratulate Kinew.