Carney unveils cabinet aimed at resetting US-Canada ties

By Promit Mukherjee and David Ljunggren

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who won an predetermination past period promising to basal up to U.S. President Donald Trump, unveiled a caller furniture connected Tuesday that helium said would assistance specify a caller narration with the United States.

Carney chopped the fig of ministers to 29 from the 39 nether erstwhile Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but kept immoderate cardinal players successful their positions, specified arsenic Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and Dominic LeBlanc, who is successful complaint of U.S. trade.

But helium moved Melanie Joly from Foreign Affairs to Industry aft 4 years and replaced her with Anita Anand.

"Canadians elected this caller authorities with a beardown mandate to specify a caller economical and information narration with the United States (and) to physique a stronger economy," Carney's bureau said successful a statement. "... This focused squad volition enactment connected this mandate for alteration with urgency and determination."

Chrystia Freeland, whose resignation arsenic concern curate past December helped oust an progressively unpopular Trudeau, keeps her occupation arsenic curate of transport and interior trade.

Former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Hodgson takes implicit arsenic earthy resources minister, replacing Jonathan Wilkinson, who was dropped from cabinet.

Carney says Canada indispensable walk billions to commencement shifting the economy's absorption distant from the United States and is besides promising to trim nationalist spending.

His contiguous promises are a taxation chopped and ending each commercialized barriers among the 10 provinces by July 1.

The Liberal platform, which promises further spending of astir C$130 cardinal ($92.85 billion) implicit the adjacent 4 years, predicts that the 2025-26 shortage volition beryllium C$62.3 billion, acold higher than the C$42.2 cardinal forecast successful December.

($1 = 1.4001 Canadian dollars)

(Writing by David Ljunggren; Editing by Rod Nickel)