“We need to grow the economy and we need to create jobs and we need to focus on Ontario’s strengths,” Wynne said. Ottawa-Orléans MPP Marie-France Lalonde became Ontario’s minister of government and consumer services Monday morning as Premier Kathleen Wynne shuffled her cabinet in preparation for a two-year march to the next election in 2018. Balancing the budget, signing new contracts with teachers and cleaning up old scandals have been necessary but probably won’t get the Liberals the votes they want. Implementation is sometimes harder than planning, she said, which is why the cabinet is bigger than it used to be. Her new ministry issues health cards and drivers’ licences, runs the government’s human-resources and records-retention systems, and applies consumer-protection laws.

Source: National Post June 14, 2016 02:03 UTC