Northern Rockies MP Bob Zimmer has been retained by the Conservatives as the party’s northern affairs spokesperson in its latest shadow cabinet.
With Mark Carney’s Liberal minority government creating a minister of northern and Arctic affairs in Rebecca Chartrand, Zimmer’s formal title is shadow minister for Arctic affairs and the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency.
Zimmer won his Prince George–Peace River–Northern Rockies seat with 71 percent of the vote in last month’s federal election. He has held the seat since 2011, when it was known as Prince George–Peace River.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre kept Zimmer in the northern affairs role on Wednesday as he unveiled his shadow cabinet to face Carney’s government. (Poilievre himself can’t sit in the House until he wins a seat, having lost the Carleton riding in April. He is expected to win Alberta’s safe Conservative seat of Battle River–Crowfoot in a by-election by the end of August.)
“Conservative solutions are needed now more than ever. We have already won the debates on carbon taxes, inflation, housing costs, crime, natural resource development and more,” Poilievre stated in announcing his shadow cabinet. “That is why Canadians gave us 23 more seats and two million more votes.”
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Poilievre listed the full shadow cabinet in a post on X.
The announcement confirms former leader Andrew Scheer will be the party’s House of Commons leader while Poilievre has no seat.
The shadow minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, opposite Carney cabinet pick and NWT MP Rebecca Alty, is central Ontario MP Jamie Schmale, a former journalist.
The Conservatives’ shadow Indigenous services minister is Billy Morin, a former chief of Enoch Cree Nation who is now the MP for Edmonton Northwest.
