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Trudeau Hands Environment Ministry to Ex-Greenpeace Campaigner
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Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, arrive at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Oct. 26.
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Justin Trudeau unveiled a new cabinet that puts an environmental activist in charge of climate policy, while shuffling other key posts in a bid by the Canadian prime minister to breathe new life into an administration entering its seventh year in power.
Steven Guilbeault, a former Greenpeace director who was arrested for scaling Toronto’s CN Tower during a 2001 protest, was named environment minister Tuesday in Ottawa as the government strives to cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than 40% over the next decade.