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Quebec’s new cabinet will have 22 ministers, plus the premier
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s Parti Québécois won 59 seats in Quebec’s October 5 election, five short of the 64 needed for a majority.
The party is forming a minority government with 22 ministers, plus the premier, one of Quebec’s smallest cabinets since the 1960s.
Marie-Karlynn Laflamme will lead health and Joël Arseneau education, while Alain Therrien will head the Treasury Board.
Catherine Gentilcore will take on immigration, and former finance minister Nicolas Marceau will return to that portfolio.
The cabinet’s smaller size reflects St-Pierre Plamondon’s campaign promise to reduce the size of the government team.
Ministers are due to take their places this evening, and the party has yet to name cabinet members for two regions where it won no seats.
Quebec’s new Parti Québécois cabinet will have 22 ministers, or 23 people including Premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.
The cabinet is one of the province’s smallest since the 1960s and has six fewer ministers than Christine Fréchette’s cabinet.
Marie-Karlynn Laflamme will become health minister, Joël Arseneau education minister, Nicolas Marceau finance minister and Catherine Gentilcore immigration minister.
The cabinet is being sworn in at the National Assembly on Wednesday.
The Parti Québécois won 59 of 127 seats in the Oct. 5 election, forming a minority government.
- Who
- The Parti Québécois government led by Premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.
- What
- It is forming a cabinet of 22 ministers, plus the premier.
- When
- The cabinet is being sworn in on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026.
- Where
- At Quebec’s National Assembly.
- Why
- St-Pierre Plamondon had pledged to reduce the size of the ministerial team as part of a goal to shrink the size of the state.
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The Parti Québécois won 59 of 127 seats in Quebec’s provincial election.
Parti Québécois members were sworn in at the legislature.
The new cabinet was scheduled to be sworn in at the National Assembly.
- Cabinet size
- 22 ministers; 23 people including the premier
- Election result
- Parti Québécois won 59 of 127 seats
- Health
- Marie-Karlynn Laflamme
- Education
- Joël Arseneau
- Finance
- Nicolas Marceau
- Immigration
- Catherine Gentilcore
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