Mark Carney. / REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

Disappointments were galore as none of the MPs of Indian descent could find a place in an exhaustive list of Parliamentary Secretaries announced by the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, for building Canada strong.

Mark Carney named 39 Parliamentary Secretaries. He also announced that  Élisabeth Brière will serve as Deputy Chief Government Whip, and Arielle Kayabaga will serve as Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons.

“Canada’s new parliamentary secretary team will deliver on the government’s mandate for change, working collaboratively with all parties in Parliament to build the strongest economy in the G7, advance a new security and economic partnership with the United States, and help Canadians get ahead,” Mark Carney said in a statement after making the appointments.

Of the 14 Liberal MPs of Indian descent, four figure in the Council of Ministers of Mark Carney. They are Anita Indira Anand (Foreign Affairs), Maninder Sidhu (Minister of International Trade) and two Secretaries of State, Ruby Sahota (Combatting crime) and Randeep Serai (International Development).

Some of the senior members of the Liberal caucus of Indian descent include Sukh Dhaliwal, Anju Dhillon, Sonia Sidhu and Bardish Chagger.

While Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade, is currently on a visit to France after touring several countries in South America, Anita Indira Anand will embark on a two-day visit to the United Kingdom and France from tomorrow.

An official communiqué stated that Canadians elected this new government with a mandate to define a new economic and security relationship with the United States, to build a stronger economy, to reduce costs, and to keep our communities safe. Parliamentary secretaries will support their respective cabinet ministers and secretaries of state to deliver on this mandate.

Members of the new parliamentary secretary team will be attached to Ministers of various departments. They are:

Karim Bardeesy – Industry; Jaime Battiste - Crown-Indigenous Relations; Rachel Bendayan, Kody Blois – attached with Prime Minister; Sean Casey - Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence; Sophie Chatel - Agriculture and Agri-Food; Madeleine Chenette - Canadian Identity, Official Languages and Sport; Maggie Chi - Health; Leslie Church -  Labour, Seniors, Children and Youth, and Jobs and Families (Persons with Disabilities); Caroline Desrochers - Housing and Infrastructure; Ali Ehsassi - King’s Privy Council, Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy (Canada-U.S. Trade); Mona Fortier- Foreign Affairs;

Peter Fragiskatos - Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship; Vince Gasparro -  Combatting Crime; Wade - Environment and Climate Change; Claude Guay - Energy and Natural Resources; Brendan Hanley - Northern and Arctic Affairs; Corey Horgan - Energy and Natural Resources; Anthony Housefather - Emergency Management and Community Resilience; Mike Kelloway - Transport and Internal Trade; Ernie Klassen – Fisheries; Annie Koutrakis - Jobs and Families; Kevin Lamoureux - Leader of the Government in the House of Commons; Patricia Lattanzio -  Justice and Attorney General of Canada; Ginette Lavack -  Indigenous Services; Carlos Leitao - Industry; Tim Louis -  King’s Privy Council for Canada and Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy (Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy; Jennifer McKelvie -  Housing and Infrastructure; Marie-Gabrielle Ménard - Women and Gender Equality and Small Business and Tourism; David Myles -  Canadian Identity and Culture and Official Languages and Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretary of State (Nature); Yasir Naqvi becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade and International Development; Taleeb Noormohamed -  Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation; Rob Oliphant - Foreign Affairs; Tom Osborne  -  Treasury Board; Jacques Ramsay - Public Safety; Pauline Rochefort - Rural Development); Sherry Romanado - National Defence; Jenna Sudds - Government Transformation, Public Works, Procurement and Defence Procurement); and Ryan Turnbull - Finance and National Revenue, Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions.